ABSTRACT
With the growing public interest in autism, we witness a critical twist in the debate that characterizes this subject. Initially reduced to the scientific field - generally medical - the issue of autism has been progressively taken over by different agents, especially by the autistic themselves, whose contributions have greatly expanded on what we may know about autism nowadays. With the term autism narratives, this article aims to demonstrate the richness of these new knowledge contributions to the scientific and political debate on the issue and demonstrate its risk of remaining encapsulated and restricted to the strictly scientific field. For this purpose, we go through the history of the concept, highlighting how it has been affected the scientific course enriched by these other agents' influence and the value of considering the various narratives about autism. Situating the diversity of these narratives is not only to retake a plural and open position against an exclusive and restrictive one but, instead, to put into action what may happen to the scientific debate when it does not close itself too much over the organization's objective tendency of scientific discourse.
Keywords:
Narratives;autismo; subjectivity