Abstract/Statement
While there are many facets of a career in academia that may be amendable to autistics, the discipline also presents a number of challenges. These hardships can be exacerbated by misunderstandings or even discrimination from colleagues and administrator with pre-existing assumptions of autistic behavior erroneously based on media representations. This essay will examine literary and television representations of autistics working in university settings to argue that the nature of such portrayals negatively impacts the popular view of autistic scholars. Comedy is frequently used to highlight social awkwardness and other behavioral deviance, perpetuating Damian Milton’s double-empathy problem.
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Recommended Citation
Brick, Martin
(2024)
"Not the Absentminded Professor: Autistic Experience and Representation in Academia,"
Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture: Vol. 6:
Iss.
1, Article 11.
DOI: 10.9707/2833-1508.1194
Available at:
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/ought/vol6/iss1/11