Autistic autobiographies and more-than-human emotional geographies
Autistic autobiographies and more-than-human emotional geographies
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DOI：
10.1068/d4308
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发表时间：
2009-10-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Smith, Mick
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作者：
Davidson, Joyce;Smith, Mick
本文分析了45个已发表的自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）患者的自传体描述，以突出他们与“自然”事物和场所的情感关系（通常是强烈的）的重要作用。这样做，它提供了一个部分纠正临床和流行的观点，自闭症患者几乎完全不合群，不关心他人的存在和行为。相反，对作者所报告的现象性见解的文本解释揭示了他们的个人地理特征是与更广泛的非人类世界的丰富、有益和有意义的关系，他们生活的各个方面可以是可接受的、可接受的，在这个更广泛的意义上是“社会的”。这样的分析可能会提供重要的，虽然方法上有限的，对ASD的经验的见解，同时也挑战占主导地位的理解“社会”-在这个意义上的“与他人”-和情感的参与，完全集中在人类之间的互动。事实上，在某种程度上，这些对“自然”世界充满情感的体验与许多神经典型个体的感受产生了共鸣。
This paper draws on an analysis of forty-five published autobiographical accounts of individuals with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) to highlight the important role of their, often intense, emotional relations to 'natural' things and places. In doing so, it offers a partial corrective to clinical and popular views of people with autism as almost entirely asocial and unconcerned with the beings and doings of others. A textual hermeneutic of the phenomenal insights reported by authors reveals instead that their personal geographies are characterized by rich, rewarding, and meaningful relationships with the wider more-than-human world, and that aspects of their lives can be undeniably, agreeably, 'social' in this broader sense. Such an analysis may offer important, albeit methodologically limited, insights into experiences of ASD while also challenging dominant understandings of 'sociality'-in the sense of 'being-with-others'-and of emotional involvement, that focus entirely on interactions between human beings. Indeed, to some extent, these emotionally charged experiences of the 'natural' world resonate with the feelings of many more neurotypical individuals.