Acessibilidade afetiva por e para autistas na pandemia da COVID-19: ativismo na pandemia da COVID-19

Abstract

Since the proliferation of the COVID-19 pandemic due to the new Coronavirus and consequent social isolation, society has undergone extreme routine changes. The search for alternatives to relate to others appears to be something usual in the daily lives of autistic people, which have differences regarding Social Communication skills (AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION, 2013). In this paper, written by an autistic master's student, who maintains an intense presence in the production of content about Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on the Internet and her supervisor, we bring to the discussion the construction of textualities on digital platforms through dialogue with testimonials from autism and activism on these platforms during and before initial quarantine period. Methodologically, we opted for an incursion into public profiles of digital networks with an ethnographic inspiration (DAS, 2020). Thus, we aimto articulate a dialogue between the autistic master's student and the observed profiles concerning affective accessibility (PESSOA, 2019) for and by people in the Autistic Spectrum during the Covid-19 pandemic.