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It is likely that there is an implicit agreement to exclude symptoms from the field of autism. This article hopes first to ascertain the matter of symptoms in autism. Finally, it shows that if parents and behaviorists are interested in autism, it is because they have the (mistaken) idea that autistic people could be considered a paradigm of subjects without symptoms (without singularity or any kind of resistance), which is the very thing capitalist discourse hopes to lean on. However, along the way, we must learn what solutions could help autistic people live in the contemporary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]