Whose Body Is It? The Body without Organs and Symphrenia

Part 1: The body without organs, the plane of consistency, and thinking-feeling with others

Deleuze and Guattari title one of the plateaus in A Thousand Plateaus “How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?” (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987, p. 149).

I have read that title many times, but only recently noticed how much weight the word “yourself” carries. It points to a single body and a single self doing the making. As an Autistic and ADHD person…