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    "title": "Premodern Perspectives, Disability Studies, and Public Writing",
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    "abstract": "<p>As part of a cluster of pieces on \"the whole medievalist,\" this essay challanges conventional boundaries between academic and public writing by demonstrating how my scholarly expertise in premodern literature and culture was instrumental to the arguments and ethos of my recent book <em>Right from the Start: A Practical Guide for Helping Young Children with Autism</em>. Specifically, the essay discusses <em>The Ancrene Wisse</em> and <em>The Book of Margery Kempe</em> to reveal how medieval conceptions of rules and social non-conformity inform my writing about autism, understood as a form of life that warrants both a compassionate response from the neurotypical community and structured accommodations that support autistic people in the practice of self-regulation and self-advocacy. Even though <em>Right from the Start</em> does not explicitly say anything about early English writers, the book’s most central insights — and its ethical commitments — derive from my explorations of medieval culture and its capacious perspectives on human identity, communal values, and ways of being in the world — topics that are integral to any discussion of autism today.</p>",
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            "first_name": "Kate",
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            "last_name": "Crassons",
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    "date_submitted": "2025-08-26T18:34:47.058000-07:00",
    "date_accepted": "2025-09-12T20:54:56.604000-07:00",
    "date_published": "2026-01-29T22:32:00-08:00",
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