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“To shock those who didn't know and acknowledge those who have been shocked.”

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“I believe that disclosure represents a particular kind of inventional site within autism land. Because autism, in the cultural imagination, is an ambiguous and often mystery-laden construct, any disclosure around autism invokes questions, invokes guesswork, incites demands for particularity. One cannot claim autism without being pressed for more -- more information, more cross-examination, more refutation, more response, more words flowing from more mouths. But there is likewise a problem of ethos (or kakoethos, to quote Jenell Johnson) inherent in these disclosures, wherein autistic people are figured as lacking authority to speak on or from within autism. Autistic academic Dinah Murray laments these figurations of autism and ethos, noting, "Disclosure of an autism spectrum diagnosis means disclosure of the fundamentally flawed personhood implied by [autism's] diagnostic criteria. It is likely to precipitate a negative judgment of capacity involving permanent loss of credibility." In disclosing autism, we are both too autistic and not autistic enough...”

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Book:Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

Source: Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

“This tree was a vast cylinder of wood. It filled the sky. The limbs reached out above me, a great canopy sheltering the rest of the trees, as if they were its children.”

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Book:The Eagle Tree

Source: The Eagle Tree

“My arms sometimes move on their own in big flapping motions, as if I might take off, and my hands spin like a hummingbird’s wings.”

Climate Change Autism Trees Autistic Eagletree

Book:The Eagle Tree

Source: The Eagle Tree

“The trees reach up above me toward the sky, stretching out their great limbs in an intricate pattern that reminds me of the pattern of light... the pattern shifting back and forth as I climb.”

Climate Change Autism Trees Autistic Eagletree Nedhayes

Book:The Eagle Tree

Source: The Eagle Tree

“The branches are a storm around me, and I fall into a deep well of green. The needles and limbs rush past. It is a whirling motion of green and brown branches.”

Climate Change Autism Trees Autistic Eagletree

Book:The Eagle Tree

Source: The Eagle Tree

“...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.”

Faith Abuse Leaving Controversial Mormonism Mormons Leaving The Saints Nibley

Author:Martha Beck

“The forest was all around me now... The ground soft and warm with light and growth... I could almost hear the ceaseless excavations of the flowing bloodstream underneath the earth skin of this vast organism. I touched the outreaching roots of the trees... I could feel that nearly invisible network of capillary roots... I breathed in and out. I was part of the forest. I was alive.”

Climate Change Autism Trees Autistic Eagletree

Book:The Eagle Tree

Source: The Eagle Tree

“I felt the bark of the trees on either side of me as I walked. I could reach out with my fingertips and touch their bark as I passed. The skin of the trees was warm in the sunlight, and rough, and I imagined that each tree contained a soul.”

Climate Change Autism Autistic Eagletree Trees Matter

Book:The Eagle Tree

Source: The Eagle Tree

“I fall for centuries of life. First sunlight touches this hillside; and buried inside the earth, a seed stirs, turning slowly in the deep soil like a tadpole turning itself in a dank pool.”

Climate Change Autism Trees Autistic Eagletree

Book:The Eagle Tree

Source: The Eagle Tree

“I watched water dripping off the ferns and the needles of the Western Red Cedar next door. I watched it running in runnels down the bark of the Cherry tree, and I looked at the small droplets of misty water that were accumulating on the broad leaves of the Bigleaf Maple.I touched one of the accumulated droplets, and instantly it was gone.”

Climate Change Autism Trees Autistic Eagletree

Book:The Eagle Tree

Source: The Eagle Tree