Yergeau writes that she comes to this project “equal parts as a rhetorician and autistic activist” (5). To qualify my stuckness with beginning with shit, I want to make clear that Yergeau’s book is more than an academic and theoretical inquiry into rhetoricity in relation to disability studies. If feels socially unacceptable to write about myself and my shit. While writing this, I am finding it difficult to position myself as an author, authoring content about Yergeu’s book, and transitively autism, without talking about shit.
However, I also hope to use this essay as a methodological and personal practice in what it might mean to engage with disability studies in critical, generative, and generous ways.
In this essay, I both ponder and apply Melanie Yergeau’s theoretical frameworks concerning 1) resonances between autism and queerness and 2) the boundaries of the human created and enforced by the selective parceling out of rhetoricity.
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