I don’t know whether it was a case of my writing being bad, or me having led an uninteresting life (I don’t think so) or because I deliberatly decided to flout the convention of starting at the begginning and going through to the end, it is more episodic than that with jumps backward and forward in time (post modern as you might expect from me)

It is not just my autiebiography it is partly a biography of my mums involvement in disability politics, a story I believe ought to be told

However it is still autiebiography and yes there probably is too much of it for me to expect that mine is meritorios enough for publication, the project is now abandoned.

As for poetry well I believe my poetry is good enough for the mainstream, but no-one makes any money publishing poetry so whats the point :) My poetry features in my videos anyway, and even creeps into the odd paper, like the one that is featured in the forthcoming AWARES conference.

I urge people to read that BTW if they have not already seen practically the same in “our voices” as it is condemnation of the idea of “normalisation”

Probably what is needed is a good book of political essays, however whenever such a co-operative writing project starts up nothing seems to happen (leastways not with any I have been involved in)

1. The defacto political “groups” out there.

2. Various “alliances” and “exchanges”/”opinions” and “efforts to change” or “promote new image”(games and falsehoods) and perhaps the big spats too.

I’m analytical. I remember at some age putting kid’s names in circles and figuring out “political roles”. ie: some people criticize “everyone” and some people suck up to “everyone”. And it so happens that both these are liked in different ways or hated but “famous”. Perhaps an index of the movers and shakers ie: a “who’s who” at the end?

Someone who has a lot of experience in this area should do the job. It wouldn’t be me but if someone ever wanted to give me one of their questions, I’d be ok but I’ve got a new take on “fame” right now. I want to remain concealed. If I do anything good, I’d just assume no one knew it was me… not out of being some saint, on the contrary, out of avoiding the trouble. Perhaps being able to “accept” the trouble is necessary. I would…only if it were clear I made some little monsters here or there out of it.

One draft of The New Shadow (I believe that’s what it’s called; Anthea bought it a few years ago and I haven’t actually read it since then) is in The Peoples of Middle-Earth. It’s all right, I suppose– interesting premise, but I had that kind of uncomfortable squidge of recognition that comes of reading something which was never meant to be printed in its extant form.

Well Jessica Kingsley will happily publish a book by the renegade Lathe making us all out to be mercury victims, and all manner of other stuff in which to my mind we are objectivised.

I wonder how much of this suppression is market forces, and how much outright prejudice?

Mind you it kind of spoils the stereotypes by having politically active autistics, I mean we just don’t have the thery of mind for that sort of thing do we?

And regarding a politically-themed book by autistics…that sounds like it would be an interesting project. It might work as a sort of collaboration, but then again, that could be difficult for folks who can’t work on other people’s schedules (which I know applies to many of us).