Orchestrating Voices: Autism, Identity, and the Power of Discourse, by Nancy Bagatell

In her description of how Ben, a college student she met at a group called Autistic Adults Coming Together, constructed a positive autistic identity, Nancy Bagatell (2007, 423) observes that having to orchestrate the different discourses around him produced “a lot of discomfort—depression, anxiety and sensory overload—and he desperately wanted relief.”

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Nancy Bagatell, PhD

Bagatell, Nancy. 2007. “Orchestrating Voices: Autism, Identity, and the Power of Discourse.” Disabil...