Response #18

Summary
In their article " Autism and Rhetoric" Paul Heilker and Melanie Yergeau explain to the reader the concept of  autism being a rhetoric. They argue this by explaining how autism is a rhetoric because it is a "focus on communication in social interaction" (262), and thus define it as a "rhetorical phenomenon" (262)

Synthesis
I could't really relate this to too much because it is a completely different topic than anything else that we have read lately because the topic was so different, however it can definitely be related to the discourse community because from the way the authors talk in this article, autism is a discourse community.

My Thoughts
I thought this article was pretty interesting, mostly because I had never thought about autism in this way of it being a community within itself.