Parrhesia and Autistic Art: Paths to the Courage of Truth and Care for the Self

Abstract

This article begins with arguments about the ways to achieve parrhesiast freedom for an autistic person, in the context of care for the self, in the face of issues imposed by everyday life, highlighting, from this perspective, the artistic manifestations developed as a route to the courage of the truth. It aims, therefore, to achieve self-authorship, within the discovery and establishment of oneself as an ontological reality distinct from the body, based on the emergence of the concept of psykhé, as a way of being and a way of doing that it is about to account for throughout existence, serving as a driving force to chart the path towards self-authorship, that is, for human beings to resume life as possible beauty, until minimizing the remnants of the system of domination of subjects. In this sense, the discussion falls into the concepts that will delimit the social framework in which autistic people are inserted, as a gateway to propose possibilities for action, also based on the need to mitigate prejudices or obstacles to the inclusion process in all areas of the daily life. The bibliographical basis focuses on elements of Foucault's work, Courage of The Truth, as well as some of his commentators.