Autistic culture online: virtual communication and cultural expression on the spectrum

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The Cerebral Subject and the Challenge of Neurodiversity (2009, background): “Ben’s trajectory recalls the gay and lesbian ‘coming out’, which can be understood as political act with important consequences, either liberating or destructive (Davidson, 2008; Valentine et al., 2003).”
Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media (2010, background): “…and refiguring themselves through their everyday reliance on digital media including religious worshippers (Eisenlohr 2006, Ess et al. 2007, Radde-Antweiler 2008), people with disabilities (Boellstorff 2008, Davidson 2008, www.annualreviews.org • Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media 495 A nn u.”
‘I avoid pubs and the student union like the plague’: Students with Asperger Syndrome and their negotiation of university spaces (2010, background): “His comment challenges the predominant belief amongst practitioners that students with AS are more receptive towards online communities for social interaction (Birnie 2006, also see Davidson 2008).”
‘Coming out’ on the spectrum: autism, identity and disclosure (2010, background): “…online communications, for example, suggests that there are communities of autistics emerging on the basis of ‘shared patterns and shared experiences [that] comprise a culture, every bit as much so as Deaf culture and gay culture’ (Schwarz 2004: 164; see Davidson 2008; Skelton and Valentine 2003).”