<p><strong>Disability or difference? How autism is understood varies from place to place.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Drawn from lived experience this book explores the question of what autism is and how it is best viewed in society.&nbsp;Dr Jim Hoerricks PhD&nbsp;- an academic and non-verbal autistic person - interrogates different models of disability and considers how autism might be seen as a difference in human experience in light of the need for accommodations and structural supports.</p><p><br></p><p>Positioning autism as both a set of traits and an identity&nbsp;<strong><em>No place for autism?</em></strong>&nbsp;asks what can be done to give place for autistic people and communities.</p>