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Volume 1, Issue 1

Autism Was Never Added to Barbie. You Just Finally Noticed.

Axel Andersen3 pages424 KB

Abstract

Following Mattel's announcement of an 'Autistic Barbie' (complete with officially sanctioned traits and accessories), this paper argues a far more confronting position: Barbie and Ken have always been autistic. Not biologically, not diagnostically—but relationally. Autism, we propose, has never been inherent to the doll. It emerges through who is playing, how, and whose inner world is allowed to animate plastic.

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