Ralph James Savarese is a disability studies scholar, poet, essayist, and professor of American literature. He is the author of Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption, which Newsweek called “a real life love story and an urgent manifesto for the rights of people with neurological disabilities.” In 2018 he published See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor, which The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism praised as a “collaboration of rare beauty.” For decades we’ve been told that people with autism have impairments in language, imagination, and social understanding. According to this view, literature would be the last art form that such people might respond to deeply. Savarese offers a very different view in his presentation titled “The Difference that Neurodiversity Makes, or Reading Novels with Autistic People.”