an email connecting two fellow musical Autists

Let this email be a refutation of the normative psychology of Autism.

Let the etymology of Autism — to be within one’s self — be sundered where this email touches our fleshes across space-time-matterings. Our solipsisms touch through our heterogeneous experiences; we recognize a need for a language which opens out our interior, yet stops short of the pathologizing language which simply redoubles barriers. I name this true language stimming, echolalia, idiosyncratic vocabularies, prosopagnosia, alexithymia, and many others besides.

We know in our souls that Autistic being is the infinite spooling out of the self, forged with the reciprocal extremity of the world’s sentience — of course, this is the true ontology of the world; the Autist is the one-in-two-in-one (argument and co-ordinate; point-to-line-to-plane) who is conscious of this.

Let us write our bodies, our minds, our souls in the full recognition of the harmonic resonance of such think-do-livings.

Let us sing for ourselves.

(17/05/2023)