In this article, I explore a new approach to researching dis/ability around neurodiversity differently, recentring on how my emotions and lived experiences relate to my experience as a liminal researcher. Going beyond the dichotomy of a traditional insider/outsider positionality, I consider how exploring the dynamic experience of being and becoming a liminal researcher provides possibilities to bring together debates about positionality, neurodiversity voices in research, and concerns in management and organisation studies around affect. Introducing three affective charges in the research encounter: (i) liminality as vulnerability, (ii) liminality as refocusing, and (iii) liminality as messiness, I explore how research encounters hold the potential to disrupt assumptions around the relations and reciprocities involved in researching. In doing so, I consider the potential to legitimise in-between knowledge as a new epistemological mode of studying and writing about dis/ability in organisations.
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