I plan to discuss the rhetorical construction of agency and identification in my dissertation (probably at some point in the first section on definitions and in the second part on the "gaze"--many are written by parents of autistic children and some are written by communicative (I use this term rather than the more popular "verbal" because Amanda Baggs is able to communicate via computer but not able to speak) autistic individuals). The motivations differ from blog to blog but each is unique and I believe that they, as a collective rhetorical space, reflect a very different time in autism's history when ordinary people can feel like they are doing something about their or their children's neurological condition.
Note to self: need to address differences between viewing autism as "neurological," "developmental," and "psychiatric" condition. All wrought with different implications.
Back to the blogs. Some relevant ones of interest that I keep bookmarking (and I'm going to continue to add to this list). Of course, there is a list of autism related blogs available at autismhub but these are the ones that I keep finding linked from others and keep coming back to myself:
Autism Vox
Autismland
The Autism Crisis
Autism Diva
Natural Variation
The Joy of Autism
It's All Okay
Autism's Edges
Hoop Dee Doo and PDD
A Shade of Grey
Whose Planet is it Anyway?
Left Brain/ Right Brain
Searching Equilibrium
Hating Autism
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