{"id":3079,"date":"2022-01-22T14:58:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T14:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/?page_id=3079"},"modified":"2022-01-22T14:58:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T14:58:55","slug":"whats-in-a-name-aspergers-syndrome-in-the-formation-of-otherness-andrea-c-valente","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/?page_id=3079","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s in a Name? Asperger\u2019s Syndrome in the Formation of Otherness\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" align=\"justify\">Andrea C. Valente, PhD<\/h2>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">York University<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">E-mail: valentac@yorku.ca<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b><strong><span lang=\"en-GB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rhetoric.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Valente-A-issue-50-January-2022-p.19-34.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8644 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/rhetoric.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1200px-PDF_file_icon.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"it-IT\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Abstract:<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> In this contribution I revise the changes that have been put in place for phasing out Asperger&#8217;s syndrome based on the DSM-5 and question its implication to individuals with Asperger\u2019s in terms of their disability identity and positionality as the Other in autism spectrum disorder. Moreover, recent backlash against the eponym of Asperger&#8217;s syndrome have struck the autistic\/Asperger community affecting once again their self-concept and sense of belonging. In view of these two instances in the Asperger community, I argue that fluctuations in the disability identity have become a matter of rhetoric of naming and of a repositioning of Otherness as a result of complex relations and contexts that involve clinical medicine and history. Hence, I aim to show that Asperger\u2019s disorder has become a contested diagnosis of Otherness in autism studies by analysing extracts from Temple Grandin\u2019s published autobiography <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><i>Thinking in picture<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> and from comments posted by viewers of a YouTube Channel, \u201cThe Aspies World\u201d, in which a video reveals Hans Asperger\u2019s involvements with the Third Reich during the annexation of Austria.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"it-IT\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Keywords: <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Hans Asperger; DSM-5; disability identity; Otherness; Temple Grandin.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"it-IT\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Rhetoric and Communications Journal, issue 50, January 2022<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"it-IT\" align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rhetoric.bg\/whats-in-a-name-aspergers-syndrome-in-the-formation-of-otherness\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Read the Original in English<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea C. Valente, PhD York University E-mail: valentac@yorku.ca Abstract: In this contribution I revise the changes that have been put in place for phasing out Asperger&#8217;s syndrome based on the DSM-5 and question its implication to individuals with Asperger\u2019s in terms of their disability identity and positionality as the Other in autism spectrum disorder. Moreover, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3079","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3079\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}