Análise de conteúdo produzido no Instagram por jovens e adultos autistas

Abstract

Instagram is a social network that emerged in 2010, for personal purposes, how to share photos and videos. However, it became a vehicle commercial, content creation and defense of causes, such as the autist activism. In this network, the formal and informal contents produced by young and adult autistics have increased in a way significant. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a disorder of neurodevelopment, which manifests itself from early childhood, and is characterized mainly by difficulties in communication and in social interaction. However, it is observed that academic production about autism focuses, in a privileged way, on the vision of the caregiver, child and professional, neglecting what it means be autistic for young and adult autistics. Given the above, the present study aimed to analyze the contents that young people and adults autists produce about autism on Instagram. It's a qualitative research, of documentary analysis, which adopted the collection of public social network data. 68 profiles were analyzed and had your posts categorized through the Content Analysis of Bardin, considering a time frame from January to December of 2021. After the content filtering process, 32 profiles were chosen to carry out the categorical content analysis. Subsequently, with the analysis of three judges, the results were structured into four categories that were subdivided into subcategories: Autism: diagnosis, treatment and comorbidities; Social skills and aggressive behaviors; Social insertion: Sexuality, religion, labor market and rights; and, Personal Posts, Controversies, criticisms and prejudices.