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Tiny Disasters: Confessions of an Autistic Professor
Abstract
In this lyric essay, the author weaves personal Autism narratives with linguistics and disability theory to illuminate the challenges and joys of being an autistic adult in today's world. As a student, a poet, a junior high teacher and finally as a university professor, the author explores the daily challenges of being out-of-sync with the norm, of living and working with sensory processing disorder, social ostracism and discrimination due to interpersonal communication issues, executive dysfunction, meltdown, shutdown, and atypical emotional expression and eye contact, amidst an ill-informed public resistant to lowering the barriers to adults with Autism. He also celebrates the joys of being autistic, his autistic "super-powers," and the ways in which his life-long struggles to understand and to feel welcome have shaped him to be a compassionate teacher, writer and community activist. The author includes anecdotes of autistic students, friends and family as well, and makes recommendations for better sensory/social environments for students and faculty alike, all in the service of greater autistic awareness, inclusion and acceptance.
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