Contemporary understandings of citizenship often rely on assumptions of autonomy, rationality, and normative participation that usually limit its exercise for autistic people. This exclusion becomes particularly visible when citizenship is defined through standards of normality that fail to account for neurodivergent experiences. Based on the neurodiversity paradigm and the social model of disability, this study approaches citizenship as a set of practices enacted within and beyond formal political spaces, including digital environments. This paper argues that autistic members of the Colombian Autistic Association Autiscol perform acts of citizenship through digital spaces that function as reasonable accommodations for their neurotype and modes of communication, and highlight the importance of recognizing the autistic community as a distinct political group. These practices challenge the dominant definition of citizenship and open the space for autistic adults to advocate for themselves while broadening the political participation of disabled people. The methodology of this study employs a digital autoethnography combining the analysis of official documents, internal communications, and social media content produced by Autiscol and its members, alongside semi-structured interviews from a firstperson perspective. The analysis focuses on how daily practices in digital spaces constitute acts of citizenship through claims-making, collective identification, resistance, and rights advocacy. The study contributes to rethinking citizenship by showing how neurodiversity and the social model of disability function as both conceptual and practical tools that enable Colombian autistic adults to construct alternative forms of citizenship aligned with their characteristics, desires, needs, and political demands.

Linda Ivonne Rosero Chingual is a Master’s student in Political Studies at the National University of Colombia. Her research examines the construction of citizenship among autistic adults through a qualitative and digital autoethnographic approach grounded in first-person experience. As an autistic lawyer and activist, she works on the rights of neurodivergent and disabled people from an intersectional and anti-discrimination perspective. She is a founding member of the Asociación Autistas de Colombia (Autiscol) and co-founder of Interseccionalmente, where she engages in legal advocacy and research on disability and neurodiversity.