Ian Hacking (2006) has noted that “many misfit adults now recognize themselves as autistics, or so they say. It really helps to be able to put a label to your oddities. It brings a kind of peace: so that is what I am.” Judy Singer (1999, 62) expounds on the “benefits of a clear identity,” and Jane Meyerding (2003) speaks of the “aha! moment” when she discovered autism as an explanation.
When John Michael Carley's son was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, Carley learned the disorder w...
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.