🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis

“For months in 2024, a 10-year-old boy with special needs was subjected to relentless bullying on his school bus rides. “They were negligently supervised and lacked training to take care of verbal and nonverbal autistic children,” Iakovou said”

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More of me sharing my diagnosis journey on my podcast Black Girl Diagnosed 🩷🤍
Watch the full episode now on YouTube & listen where you get your podcasts

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Two Magical Christmas Stories for Every Black Girl! ✨
This season, celebrate joy, culture & Black girl magic with two twin stories:
❤️ For Black autistic girls!
❤️ For Black neurotypical girls

This! Autistic whanau (soul tribe) is global. We come in all sizes, shapes, colors, backgrounds. We intersect with every other minority. And, since there are no clubs of saints on Earth, we must relentlessly resist our internalized biases and make our community equal, welcoming and safe for all.
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Autism advocacy isn’t complete without intersectionality 👍🏽, publicly commit to an anti-racist framework, share your progress transparently, and invite community feedback especially from Black autistic people

Racial disparities in diagnosis, discipline, and care are well documented 👌🏽, revise your programs to ensure they are culturally informed and accessible to Black families and track measurable outcomes.

If your organization claims to support all autistic people, anti-racism must be a core value, require annual anti-racism and cultural humility training for staff, volunteers, and leadership etc

Autistic orgs:
Black autistic people are telling you what we need.
Call to action: conduct an internal audit of your policies, staff diversity, and community practices. Identify where racial bias shows up and publish your plan to address it.

If your autistic advocacy doesn’t recognize that Black autistic people are diagnosed later, punished more, and unheard more often you’re missing the full picture.
Autistic orgs can lead the change by acknowledging and acting on this truth.

To autism organizations: amplify Black autistic voices without tokenizing them.
Pay them. Platform them. Center their expertise on intersectionality.
Representation only matters when it has power behind it.

Autistic orgs can’t rely on “autistic people can’t be racist” as a shield.
Racial bias exists in every community including ours.
Training, accountability, and Black autistic leadership are essential, not optional.

Reminder for autism organizations:
“Neurodiversity-affirming” must include anti-racist.
Black autistic community members report real harm in diagnostic processes, services, and peer spaces.
Your policies and culture need to reflect that reality

Autistic orgs: if your work isn’t actively addressing racism, Black autistic people are being left behind.
Inclusion means examining bias, listening to Black autistic voices, and building spaces where everyone is safe.
Equity has to be intentional.

Black autistic experiences get erased so often later diagnoses, harsher discipline, stereotypes of “aggression,” and racism inside autistic groups.
If your advocacy isn’t intersectional, who is it really supporting? I don’t care if I sound like a broken record 👍🏽

Some white autistic people say “I can’t be racist, I’m autistic.”
But Black autistic people keep saying: the harm is still happening.
Accountability isn’t ableism.
It’s how we make our spaces safer for everyone.

Being autistic doesn’t make anyone immune to racial bias 🤷🏽‍♀️
Black autistic people deserve communities where we aren’t talked over, doubted, or treated like our experiences don’t count.
Listen. Believe. Do better.

A reminder: racism doesn’t disappear in autistic spaces, shit autistic spaces are some of the worse
Black autistic people do experience racism from white autistic people including dismissal, gatekeeping, and stereotypes.
If a space is truly neurodiversity-affirming, it has to be anti-racist too 👌🏽

Why Autistic People Are More Vulnerable To Gaslighting And Why Its Not Our Fault

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