Representação de personagens e personas em minorias sociais (REPPEMS): a comunicação inclusiva de autistas nos fandoms

Abstract

The present thesis aims to carry out a study of the inclusive communication of autistics within fandoms, through a movement of theorizing of characters and personas (term also known as headcanon) called "Actually Autistic". It does this through an action-research that begins with a netnography on Tumblrs, later brings together a focus group of 18 autistic people around Brazil and, together with them, creates their own Tumblr of autistic characters. Finally, the thesis brings a proposal, mixing the empirical with the theoretical, to call this form of communication and interaction not only headcanon, but Reppems: Representation of Characters and Personas in Social Minorities. This work is exemplified with artistic drawings, from the glossary to the fanart maps, carried out as an in-depth study of the characters proposed as autistic.