Abstract This study reports the reflections of Andrea Quintero, the mother of a young man with autism who identifies as autistic. This person intends to promote the neurodiversity movement, which struggles for the recognition of autism as a human divergence. A socio-anthropological analysis based on post-structuralism, sociology, and ethnographic studies on autism spectrum will show the intermediate zones of neurodivergent activism, in which negotiation and dispute points occur between some autistic subjects, specialists, and parent organizations. In turn, this research describes Andrea Quintero’s criticisms of the division between adaptable and unadaptable in our time.