“Both of My Children—They’re Unusual Children!”

Although disability scholars have offered important critiques of autism representation and parenting narratives, little attention has been paid to fictional sibling relationships involving neurodivergence and disability. Building on recent neurodivergent readings of Laura from Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie , this research article aims to reevaluate the relationship between Tom and Laura Wingfield, highlighting the intersections between his queerness and her neurodivergence. While disability scholars have traditionally read the play as blaming either Tom’s departure or Laura’s disability for the family’s disintegration, this article draws on Marla Carlson’s critique of “autism family dramas” to propose a counternarrative reading, in which Williams begins to articulate a critique of the normalizing social forces that limit both siblings’ potential, challenging us to imagine what it would really take as a society to render both the playwright and his sister visible and functioning in the world.