Hacking the master code: cyborg stories and the boundaries of autism |
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Authors: | Victoria Henderson Joyce Davidson Katie Hemsworth Sophie Edwards |
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Institution: | Department of Geography, Queen's University, Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D201, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6, victoria.henderson@queensu.ca |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we consider how the use of Internet technologies by individuals on the autism spectrum (AS) may contribute to recoding the spatial, sociopolitical, ontological, and epistemological boundaries commonly assumed to delimit autistic from non-autistic lifeworlds. Drawing on the work of Donna Haraway, we argue that the responses of AS individuals to a survey about online communication suggest these individuals are engaged in a form of cyborg writing, admixing constraints and opportunities in a way that opens alternative, polycentric, and indeterminate but nonetheless important political possibilities for people on (and off) the AS. |
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Keywords: | cyborg autism disability technology normalcy Internet |
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