Abstract/Statement
“My Mind in Middlemarch” is a creative-critical essay and personal narrative of self-diagnosis. It was modeled in length and (somewhat) in style on Rebecca Mead’s essay, “Middlemarch and Me,” which appeared in The New Yorker in 2011 and was later expanded into her book, My Life in Middlemarch (2014). This personal essay narrates my journey to self-diagnosis and the initial discovery of my autism— a realization sparked by the resonance I found between my life and that of Dorothea Brooke, the central heroine of George Eliot’s classic British novel.
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Fisher, Margaret A.
(2025)
"My Mind in Middlemarch,"
Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture: Vol. 6:
Iss.
2, Article 14.
DOI: 10.9707/2833-1508.1216
Available at:
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/ought/vol6/iss2/14
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