Autism has generated a great deal of controversy, culturally, intellectually and politically. The context for this in recent years in France is unusual and has been the site of strong antagonism. These debates are political in terms of policy implications and disagreements along political lines but also entail the politics of knowledge, and the question of who has the right to speak for whom. Competing groups – parents, ‘experts’ and autistic adults have different claims to validity as knowledge-bearers. This epistemological validity is vital in creating wider public understanding and determining policy directions. Autism life-writing is a new phenomenon in French and contributes to this set of debates. In order to illuminate this further, this article will offer an account of the first best-selling memoir by an autistic individual in France. The book, L’Empereur, c’est moi, is by Hugo Horiot, and was published in 2013, at the height of the ‘autism battle’ in the French public sphere.

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Autisme，请问！雨果·霍里奥特（Hugo Horiot）作品中的生活写作，自闭症和政治

自闭症在文化，思想和政治上都引起了很大争议。近年来在法国，这种情况是不同寻常的，并且一直是强烈对抗的场所。这些辩论就政策含义和沿着政治路线的分歧而言是政治性的，但也涉及知识政治，以及谁有权为谁说话的问题。竞争群体–父母，“专家”和自闭症成年人对作为知识承载者的有效性有不同的主张。这种认识论的有效性对于建立更广泛的公众理解和确定政策方向至关重要。自闭症生活写作在法国是一种新现象，并为这一系列辩论做出了贡献。为了进一步阐明这一点，本文将介绍法国自闭症患者的第一本畅销书。