Choose a text (or a small group of related texts) that represents some kind of neurological difference. Make an argument about how the genre or form of your chosen texts shapes its contribution to public conversations about neurodiversity. Most projects will take the form of a 3,000…

I’m going to ask some big questions here. Think about whether you want to address them in your reading responses. If you do, my suggestion is to answer them with the help of passages from Silberman’s NeuroTribes. Is anybody neurotypical?…

“[Autism] was certainly nothing to be proud of.” Pg 41 I’m going to be raw for a second here: the first time I read this line (and this may sound insensitive), I thought “Wait, what? Society doesn’t view autism as…

The more I learn about neuroatypical people, the more I feel as if I have some sort of neurological issue. I see a lot of myself in the different people we have read about in is class and I in…

We were discussing in class whether Oliver Sacks was telling the truth when it came to the narration of his books. Because of the callaboration between a doctor and his patients. The patients arent mentally capable of having a say…

In the beginning of Neurotribe the author is describing his experiences while being on board a ship named Volendam. At the time he was doing research for wired magazine amongst a group of computer programmers. The author offers vivid descriptions…

Sacks’s “The Last Mariner” really intrigued me. We have been debating whether we are our brains or if we are not our brains. In this case, what happens when our brains can no longer remember? Jimmy is a 49 year…

In both “Witty Ticcy Ray” and “A Surgeon’s Life,” Sacks peculiarly describes Tourette’s Syndrome and the individual as two separate entities known as “it” and “i.” He rationalizes this by arguing that “any disease introduces a doubleness into life- an…

Similar to our previous class discussion on whether or not we are our brains, Oliver Sacks’ “The Last Mariner” brought up the question to me, are we our souls then? Are we our selves if we cannot actually recall who…

Cassuto approaches Oliver Sacks’ case studies in a literary sense, breaking down the different genres that Sacks works within or around. Cassuto suggests that disabilities have long been represented in “two arenas of human objectification,” the freak show and the…