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Autistan Diplomatic Organization
Initial overview of some core themes
About Autism
to support parliamentary reflection in the context of the project to reform disability laws in Brazil
22/05/2025
The themes covered here — and other important ones — are developed in more depth in a Detailed document, Available at: https://autistan.ong.br/contribuicoes-autismo-projeto-codigo-brasileiro-inclusao/#analise-aprofundada
0. Introduction and context
The Autistan Diplomatic Organization, International entity without claims, seeks to offer Complementary information and analysis to enrich public policies on autism and disability, aiming to improve the future Brazilian Code of Inclusion.
Brazil has important advances and great human and legislative potential, But essential elements are still missing to ensure real and effective inclusion.
1. A promising reform, with choices that can strengthen or weaken
The reform of the Brazilian Code of Inclusion may be a historic milestone, provided preserve existing rights and the achievements obtained by collective struggles. At the same time, it is an opportunity for revise inappropriate terms such as "disability".
2. Distinguishing autism from its specific disorders: indispensable base
The most serious mistake about autism is confusing autism — a particular shape, coherent and structured human functioning — with specific disorders ("TEA"). This reduction prevents the recognition of the qualities of autism and directs policies exclusively towards normalization or medicalization.
This distinction has been recognized as useful by the WHO After our explanations.
3. What Really Makes Autistic People Suffer: Socio-generated aggressions
Autistic people do not suffer from autism, but rather sensory aggressions, mental or other, socio-generated by incoherent material or social environments, confusing or absurd. Such aggressions constitute Violations of natural harmony. Reactions are logical responses to these dissonances.
Like this, Autism works as an alarm system that reveals the defects of the social system.
4. Clarify self-esteem and social validation: A vital distinction
Confusing self-esteem with social validation leads many autistic people to depend on the look of others, what causes suffering and psychic fragility. Right It's absurd, for external judgments are generally erroneous. Backwards, The natural disinterest of autistic people in this validation is a strength that protects against humiliation and depression. Teaching them to seek social acceptance destroys that protection.
This confusion also generates injustices of representativeness, because it favors the most visible, which are the least representative.
5. Theory of mind: A harmful misunderstanding
The so-called "theory of mind" defines as a defect the fact that many autistic people do not try to guess what the other thinks to adjust their speech. But This is not a failure: they express what they think directly, without distorting The meanings to please. This form of communication, often spontaneous, avoids manipulation and allows not to falsify human relationships.
6. Accessibility for autistic people: An invisible absence, but central
Unlike other groups, Autistic people still do not have an accessibility policy Structured, even though this is a central need. The few existing measurements focus on the sensorial, When the essential is in interactions and communication. This absence reveals society's difficulty in recognizing its own structural defects.
Correcting these flaws would make the system fairer for everyone. Brazil can be a pioneer in this advance.
7. Attitudinal barriers: A central obstacle to inclusion
Attitudinal barriers — judgments, Generalizations, social rigidity, indifference, implicit rejection — are often more harmful than physical obstacles. They especially affect autistic people and people with Down syndrome, For whom the social gaze has a profound impact. Brazil is one of the few countries that has recognized these barriers in the law, and it is essential to preserve and reinforce this progress.
This notion must be translated into concrete training and awareness-raising actions.
8. Need for an adapted and concrete National Autism Plan
Despite existing laws, Brazil lacks a National Autism Plan that works as a practical guide for application. This type of plan already exists in at least 18 countries or regions of the world. In Brazil, He should set clear priorities, ensure concrete implementation, allow for state-by-state adaptations and include continuous monitoring.
This would make it possible to transform formal rights into lived realities — something still unheard of here on such a scale. Our organization can accurately and pertinently support the creation of such a plan.
9. Conflicts of interest: Ensuring the independence of public policies
Many actors live from medicalized autism. It is necessary Ensure transparency through the publication of links of interest, external audits and vigilance against disguised commodification.
It is also essential avoiding representativeness biases: the most visible and socially skilled autistic people are, precisely for this reason, the least representative of the majority that faces severe hardship and remains invisible.
10. Our five structuring ingredients
Our approach is based on Five ingredients Essential:
1. Situations Problematic (Sufferings, Exclusions, Injustices);
2. Required actions (as long as autism is understood correctly);
3. Principles, Useful texts and knowledge;
4. Public actors with the instruments of action;
5. Ongoing dialogue, constructive and focused solely on the concrete resolution of situations.
This focus prevents us from being affected by personal conflicts, internal disputes or rivalry logics, common in traditional structures.
11. The specific contribution of our organization and autistic thinking
Our organization offers a Global approach, Specialized, Neutral and extra-national, No claim to office, prestige, Money or power. Autistic thinking brings extreme attention to detail — often, It is precisely these details that make understandable what seemed incomprehensible —, Beyond perseverance, Logical clarity and independence from artificial conventions, to interpersonal conflicts, to "clans" and group logics.
These qualities, rare in traditional structures, allow clarification, anticipate and structure objectively.
12. Conclusion – Proposal for dialogue
We are available for a long-term dialogue with Brazilian legislators and authorities, for the purpose of providing information, Explanations, Useful examples and proposals.
Brazil has the opportunity to become
World reference in inclusion,
especially in the field of autism.
The themes covered here — and other important ones — are developed in more depth in a Detailed document, Available at: https://autistan.ong.br/contribuicoes-autismo-projeto-codigo-brasileiro-inclusao/#analise-aprofundada
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