The article makes a significant and timely contribution to understanding the disabling material effects of autism science in the lives of autistic persons.

Turning to Lovaas's published works, we perform a ' history of the present ' and argue that a queer disability studies approach opens up the richness of autism as a cultural nexus and deepens understandings of 2 Gibson and Douglas Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 4(2) intersecting and contested histories of science, professional scopes of practice, and dominant futurities. Less commonly recognized is Lovaas' involvement in the Feminine Boy Project, where he developed interventions into the gender identities and behaviors of young people. ABA seeks to extinguish autistic behaviors, primarily among children. Lovaas is the founder of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), the most commonly used and funded autism intervention today. This paper ' queers ' the history of autism science through an examination of the overlap between the regulation of autism with that of gender and sexuality in the work of Ole Ivar Lovaas. The version of record of this paper has been published and is available in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 4(2). By this we mean that the stories shift what autism might be and become, and open space for a proliferation of representations and practices of difference in and beyond educational contexts that support flourishing for all. We argue that the films we present and analyze not only significantly change and critique traditional special education approaches based on assumptions of the normative human as non-autistic, they also enact ‘autism’ as a becoming process and relation with implications for inclusive educators.

Our approach keeps the meaning of autism moving, always emerging, resisting, fading away and becoming again in relation to context, time, space, material oppressions, cultural scripts, intersecting differences, surprising bodies and interpretative engagement. We fashion a body becoming disability studies in education approach to proliferate stories of autism outside received cultural scripts-autism as biomedical disorder, brain-based difference, otherworldliness, lost or stolen child and more. The aim of the project is to co-create new understandings of autism beyond functionalist and biomedical ones that reify autism as a problem of disordered brains and underpin special education. The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in the International Journal of Inclusive Education (advance online publication Jan 4, 2019) at This paper presents and analyzes six short first-person films produced through a collaborative multimedia storytelling workshop series focused on experiences of autism, education and inclusion.

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