"The Art of Stimming: Reconsidering Screen Performance and Autism"

这个项目的重点是自闭症在电影中的表现，以及神经正常的演员如何通过一系列的身体行为将这种看不见的残疾表现出来。它将研究“刺激”作为自闭症特征的核心，但也将研究它的“无情感”反转如何成为自闭症表现中文化上可接受的曲目的一部分。利用电影表演理论来重新思考神经多样性的表现，它也将通过自我民族志来质疑，承认其他电影表演模式与自闭症经历产生共鸣意味着什么——这必然会挑战传统的（规范的）电影观看模式。

This project focuses on the performance of autism in film and how neurotypical actors make this invisible disability visible through a series of physical behaviours. It will examine 'stimming' as central to the characterisation of autism, but will also investigate how its 'emotionless' inverse has become part of a culturally accepted repertoire in the performance of autism. Drawing upon theories of screen performance to rethink the representation of neurodiversity, it will also question, through autoethnography, what it means to recognise other modes of screen performance as resonating with the experience of autism- necessarily challenging traditional (normative) models of film spectatorship.