“Today’s episode explores the Dr. Jaime Hoerricks’ experience as an autistic student taking an introductory psychology course, specifically focusing on an assignment requiring an annotated bibliography of recent research. Dr. Hoerricks, the author of the source article, challenges the traditional notion of academic neutrality by critically analysing a purportedly comprehensive review of autism research, highlighting its medicalised framing and exclusion of autistic voices and community-led scholarship. Despite receiving feedback to remain neutral and simply summarise, the author argues that such compliance would perpetuate systemic erasure and reinforce an “Empire of neutrality” that colonises language and knowledge. Ultimately, the text advocates for autistic scholarship that embraces critique and lived experience over dispassionate summarisation, asserting that true understanding lies outside institutionally sanctioned “professionalism.”
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/just-the-facts-please-on-being-too
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