“Clinical rhetorics present serious challenges to disability disclosure. To claim autism is to claim rudeness, silence, tactlessness, nonpersonhood; it is to invite doubting others to lay-diagnose or question one's rhetorical competence. And yet it is precisely these claims and challenges that buttress much of the autistic culture movement's embrace of public disclosure, of uncloseting one's autism.” AutismAutisticDisclosureAutistic AuthorDismissal Book:Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness Source: Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness