Threat to humans’ distinctiveness and identity:

PUSHING FOR A REDEFINITION OF HUMANNESS.

The existence of artificial but humanlike entities is viewed by some as a threat to the concept of human identity.

Abjection can be uncanny in that the observer can recognize something within the abject, possibly of what it was before it was ‘cast out’, yet be repulsed by what it is that caused it to be cast out to begin with.

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are characterized by impairments in social interaction that contribute to broad social disabilities and poor functional outcomes. Across the lifespan, these impairments are associated with smaller social networks and fewer friendships, difficulty securing and retaining employment, high rates of loneliness, and an overall reduced quality of life.

BECOMING CAST OFF AND SEPARATED FROM NORMS AND RULES,

Are individuals with ASD perceived differently than their neurotypical peers, and if so, do these judgments contribute to the social disability they experience?

What aspects of their social presentation influence the formation of judgments made about them and the social behaviors directed towards them?

Julia Kristeva describes subjective horror as the feeling when an individual experiences or is confronted by the sheer experience of one’s typically repressed corporeal reality.

BECOMING CAST OFF AND SEPARATED FROM NORMS AND RULES,

Are individuals with ASD perceived differently than their neurotypical peers, and if so, do these judgments contribute to the social disability they experience?

What aspects of their social presentation influence the formation of judgments made about them and the social behaviors directed towards them?

Julia Kristeva describes subjective horror as the feeling when an individual experiences or is confronted by the sheer experience of one’s typically repressed corporeal reality.

The nonhuman characteristics are noticeable, giving the human viewer a sense of strangeness.

or am I just a two-headed calf?