I have read 11 autobiographies by high and low-functioning autistic authors, some of them non-verbal; often very severe autistics who later achieved success. Among them I present the autobiographies of Titus Mukhopadhyay, who introduces us to an alien, sensory and dreamy world, Birgen Sellin, who has a very severe form despite her talents, and Donna Williams, the most comprehensive and explicative writer. I aim to show that psychoanalysis can gain a lot from reading these authors who allow us an inside view of their world, in a way that is anything but anecdotal. They confront neuroscience with great competence and allow us to corroborate or falsify our theories. Intersecting the different authors, I identified constants in the following themes: sensory and emotional disturbances/overloading, thinking, emotions, diagnosis, Savant abilities, organogenesis/psychogenesis.

It seemed to me that the search for self-awareness, coming out of a predominantly preconscious state, is the most original note in Donna Williams' thought and that psychoanalysis can recognise a similar drive in it. I proposed a unified theory of autistic talents and deficits, confronting myself with Baron-Cohen and Snyder, distinguished researchers, thinking that psychoanalysis should be familiar with the experimental achievements of other neighbouring disciplines in this field.