Last year, I took a seminar in disability studies with Brenda Brueggemann and created a webtext for my final project — a webtext on autism and embodied authorship. This past summer, while attending the Digital Media and Composition Institute (DMAC), I did a complete overhaul on my webtext and received lots of good advice from Cindy Selfe and Cheryl Ball. This webtext has been published in the Spring 2009 issue of Computers and Composition Online, an online, refereed scholarly journal. I’m quite excited, but also quite nervous. In a way, this functions as an Asperger’s sort of “coming out.”
For those interested, my webtext is available here:
http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/dmac/index.html
I should also note that there are several places in this webtext where I attempt to be sardonic, or sarcastic even. Part of this is me playing with representations of the spectrum. My own perspective about autism is a very neurodiverse one, so if something in this webtext seems contrary to neurodiversity, or seems inflammatory, then it’s probably me attempting to be sarcastic. I’m hoping the points where I’m not being literal are clear in their intent, especially since so many people reviewed this and helped me with the revisions. 🙂