The methodological approach of the AuFic project, while comprehensive, remains resolutely focused on the actual lived experience of autistic people. It aims to study gendered representations of autism in fiction and the way autistic people interpret and renegotiate them. Knowledge about autism has always been highly controversial in France, where autistic people and their allies are still fighting for recognition and support adapted to their distinctive challenges. It is therefore vital to study how autistic people are represented in cultural productions and in the media. We hypothesise that the tropes that fictions have tended to draw on are restrictive, be they that of an autistic person as intellectually deficient, or, more recently, as a reclusive male genius (Chamak, 2015). But we also expect an emergent diversification of models of characters with autism as a result of transnational attempts to raise awareness about women with autism and autistic people concerned by gender and sexual diversity. Our goal is thus to study these transformations of the representations of autism, the way autistic people perceive them, and if and how autistic people take it upon themselves to produce alternative representations. For this purpose, the AuFic project is essentially based on a sociohistorical analysis of representations in the media, an ethnographic approach, and a creative research, applied to three fieldwork projects: a constitution and analysis of a corpus of fictions with autistic characters since the 1980s; qualitative interviews with autistic people about their relation with fiction and their eventual writing practices; and the creation of a podcast and animated short films developing a variety of representations of autism.