Both maker and writer: Steve Silberman and the history of autism

Hollin, Greg

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“…This academic success should in a sense be unsurprising: One of the primary lessons of these two books (as with those by Silverman and Singh) is that the line between expertise and ignorance, scientific and lay, has been redrawn, breached, and traversed so often that, when it comes to autism, the distinctions increasingly lack meaning. The ability of self-activists, parents, and charitable bodies to shape the condition and understandings of it – to both write and make history, as I’ve phrased it elsewhere (Hollin, 2017a) – and to do so from both inside and outside of the academy, is one of the defining features of autism in the contemporary moment. It’s fitting, therefore, that this review covers books written by social scientists, historians, rhetoricians, journalists, parents, and autistic individuals, because it is in these entanglements and intersections that the story of autism is currently being told.…”

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Within a single lifetime: Recent writings on autism

Hollin

2020

History of the Human Sciences

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In response to a recent funding application, an anonymous reviewer said of my profile that, 'given the number of fine books about autism that have emerged in recent years, it is a little unfortunate that he hasn't produced one himself'. While the continuing absence of a fine book -indeed, any book -on autism continues to haunt me, the reviewer was and is absolutely correct. When I began writing a proposal for a PhD on autism more or less exactly 10 years ago, Majia Nadesan's Constructing Autism (2005) was one of very few texts published that considered autism in a manner informed by either the social sciences or the humanities. That situation has since changed radically. Eyal et al. published The Autism Matrix (2010), perhaps still the best known entry into the canon. Next came Chloe Silverman's Understanding Autism (2012). Then, in the last two or three years, there has been a veritable deluge. In addition to Jennifer Singh's Multiple Autisms (2016) and Steve Silberman's NeuroTribes (2015), I here find myself here reviewing fivefive! -monographs. Many fine books indeed.

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