“I do not subscribe to functioning labels because functioning labels are inaccurate and dehumanizing, because functioning labels fail to capture the breadth and complexity and highly contextual interrelations of one's neurology and environment, both of which are plastic and malleable and dynamic. Functioning is the corporeal gone capitalistic -- it is an assumption that one's body and being can be quantitatively measured, that one's bodily outputs and bodily actions are neither outputs nor actions unless commodifiable.” AutismAutisticAutistic AuthorCommodificationCapitalisticInherent ValueFunctioning Labels Book:Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness Source: Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness