psychoanalysis typically understands people in some sense as created from an original alienation, or lack. lacan, jung, freud all operate on the assumption that men and women are intrinsically made by an ego lacking half of all being. penis envy makes the split for freud, the anima/animus identification for jung, the relationship to language for lacan. each has an answer for the misfits; emasculation in freudian terms, anima/animus possession in jung, and lacan says theres no reason that the male/female relation to language must correlate to male/female bodies at all. what do they have to say about the autistic, however? those people well known for being less than competent at all things gendered and heterosexual.

lacan claims that the autistic are a radical alterity, possessing a symbolic structure alien and irreconcileable to the common. jung is mute, freud the same. deluze however has other ideas. deluze characterises the autistic as not merely other symbolically, not merely alien to our common language, but alien to language itself. the autistic, to deluze, lack the concept of intrinsic lack entirely. their being is radically whole, radically unothered, radically ungendered. no autistic boy lives with a woman shaped hole inside him. no autistic girl lives with a boy shaped hole in her. no mothers. no fathers. no black. no white. its only alienation from themselves which can force the autistic to take on a gender at all, and even then the autistics inner self is almost always playing manipulator, skinwalking gendered being for advantage. autistic people are intrinsically non-binary, intrinsically trans.

with this in mind, we should understand it as nonsense to deny the claim of an autist to be a girl, or a boy. theyre both, and never could be otherwise. its also by this logic impossible for an autistic person to truly be AGP, though they may express themselves as AGP if social circumstance favours it as a form of prismatic masking.