O alinhavo da Primavera Autista: entre o ponto, o molde da identidade e a linha de devir

Abstract

This thesis starts from the inspiration of the point, the diagnosis, to reflect on the lines that make up the singularities in the multiplicities of autistic people, considering the tensions and intertwining that exist between the mold of an Autistic Identity (molar line) and the construction of the Autistic Spring (vanishing line), as a political movement. The research is based on the didactic-methodological procedure of cartography, by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2011), in order to think about what is understood as the mold of Autistic Identity in line with the concept of becoming. The epistemological tensions that construct Autistic Identity occur from the historical path of nomenclatures, legislation and classification paradigms defined by the political power of modern medicine. To this end, we re-discuss the models centred on deficits and the generalizing statements used by the DSM-5 and CID 11 to classify people diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, problematizing the norms imposed by biomedical diagnosis, which can directly influence the attitude of society and institutions towards autistic people. In order to draw the line of becoming, we carried out a qualitative study, using semistructured interviews and posts made on the public profiles of the social networks Facebook and Instagram by 5 autistic young people and/or adults as the tools for producing information. From the composition of our cartography, it is possible to identify that people like our participants reverberate their subjectivation processes through cyberspace, building non-formal education processes in their daily work – from net-activism – that dialogue with the Autistic Spring, bringing to this research the new, the multiple, the multicolored, a kaleidoscope of vivid colors. In this way, our statement is confirmed and acquires the necessary design for conciliation and rupture in a universe of people who come together on the networks through a diagnosis – a sign that classifies them – but which, at the same time, takes them to a place of transposition of devices. Therefore, it can be concluded that the Autistic Spring is composed, not only through protagonism via the networks, but also by this same means, it seeks a way out of them.