ABSTRACT
This chapter revisits the problem of living between the symbolic world and the 'real' in Spruill's and other autists' narratives. Gerone Spruill is a good-looking young Black man of medium height, appearing to be much younger than his 40-plus years. Spruill described himself as a healthy baby until age two. But in November, a month after his second birthday, he had an asthma attack. His mother took him to the general hospital, where he was diagnosed with autism. As a visual artist, Spruill is influenced by the album cover artists for Parliament/Funkadelic, Overton Loyd, and Pedro Bell. In order to understand Spruill's adapted narratives, codes, and autistic iconography, in subsequent paragraphs author introduce a brief history of P-Funk cosmology. Spruill arrives at a multi-layered, wish-fulfilling narrative with an adaptation of P-Funk's iconography coupled with autistic fragmentation. The Author queries how the linguistic alterity of autism is both a negation and symptom of symbolic, social order.
