This is the third in a series. For the previous posts see here and here. I’m commenting on individual essays in Max Sparrow’s collection Spectrums, about trans autistic people. I’M TRANS AND AUTISTIC, AND YES (FOR ME), THEY’RE RELATED This was the point where it started to feel like self-parody, really in the realm of…
For an explanation of my background and assumptions, see the previous post. Here, I’ll be commenting on passages from Max Sparrow’s Spectrums a collection of essays (and poetry) by autistic trans people. MY BODY Joelle Smith tells a story about playing with dolls, and then writes: I also didn’t know I was a girl. If…
AUTISM ANDROGYNY I think it’s true that autism changes the experience of gender, and not just because we’re naturally weird with pronouns. Something is different about our sense of self, in general. That difference is abstract and vaguely defined, though. I think autism androgyny has more to do with missing social cues. If gender is…
The trans movement annoys me, as a social constructionist. In high school in the 1990s, I was on the debate team and thought I’d study philosophy in college (I didn’t). I learned about postmodernism and psychoanalysis first, THEN I heard that CRT and queer theory were applications to race and gender. In other words, I…