Autie-Ethnography and Epistemic Injustice

A Contribution to the Reflection on Experience-Based Research in the Critical Medical Humanities

Abstract

Based on exemplary autistic ethnographies and discussions about autistic live writing, the article examines the potential of auto-ethnographic research by Autistics in the context of Critical Medical Humanities. A key argument is that autistic ethnographies emerge in an academic context that is characterised by epistemic injustice in the sense of Miranda Fricker which affects autistic people to a great extent. How far autie-ethnographies can represent a possible response to this finding is discussed primarily on the basis of Remi Yergeau's and Monique Botha's autoethnographic works.