#autistic poc

[sirenito-speaks]

“Plain food is a universal safe food for autistic people!” Dawg I just had a literal meltdown cuz my food was underseasoned </3

[blackautism]

Neurodivergent Insights

[dr-alchemicrow]

Wanted to share this here because I know there are good, passionate people on Tumblr who actually care about justice. Go watch this and reblog.

(Or just reblog if you don't have time to or it's unhealthy for your mental health to watch videos on very sad and upsetting events right now.)

This mother put a camera on her nonverbal autistic son to school because they were constantly reporting he was misbehaving, even though he had never acted the way they described at home. When reviewing the footage, it was revealed one of the white, male teachers were strangling, hitting and yelling at her son and calling him the n-word. She went back to the school, called the police who showed up, talker to them and showed them the footage.

The teacher, Robert, was never arrested. All the police gave her was a post-it-note.

That's all. After going through finding out this was going on and carefully treading through the extremely difficult experience of having to remain superhumanly calm after an event like this in front of staff and police as a black woman, that's all she got.

I am not sure exactly what tags to put on this, since I'm a bit new to making awareness posts. If you have any better or more tags, please reblog with those and thanks for the help.

[finder-of-rings]

Are you autistic? Are you an autistic artist? Are you autistic and a person of color? Are you an autistic person who feels that your story has been untold in common narratives of autism? Are you creative?

If yes, we want YOU! Specifically, I want to invite you to contribute to this show I'm a part of called the autistic monologues! We are seeking to tell as many aspects of the autistic experience as we can and there is simply only so much we can cover as a rather homogeneous group (mostly white, 19-22, queer, undiagnosed or late diagnosed, etc) from one small college. Please fill out this form if you have anything you'd like to submit! Videos and art we can project digitally and recordings of your writing are particularly welcome!

Even if you aren't eligible to submit, please reblog this and spread the word, maybe one of your followers is! If you have any questions please feel free to contact me or @southernwizards

[dreamdropdollop]

art credit - Draw To AAC

nonverbal communication is valid communication (they look a bit like us with our hair out heh)

[your-local-aaa-battery]

My heart is broken for Ryan Gainer. No one deserves to die simply for being black and autistic. We must fight for the rights of all autistics, because no one will do it for us.

It is so close to autism awareness month, and my heart hurts knowing just how many people face the same discrimination for simply having a disability and being a POC.

I urge everyone to share and reblog as many posts as they can. Get the internet’s attention! Because we need everyone if we are going to continue the fight for justice for Ryan Gainer.

Rest in Power, Ryan Gainer

[imkrisyoung]

Now that I'm growing more into myself and no longer suppressing my autistic and ADHD traits l, I'm having more moments where I'm physically unable to speak l, essentially "going nonverbal", as it's known.

It's freeing, but at the same time it's scary because there are a lot of hostile and violent people out there who will never understand what it's like to be neurodivergent.

Still, I'm thankful for the Infinite Universe for freeing me from the trauma, and bringing me closer to myself every day. ❤️

[thenarrativehauntsme]

trying to figure out if i’m unmasking or if im age regressing

but then when i think it could be unmasking i get upset at myself cause i feel like im infantilizing myself

but also i don’t know if it’s age regression

wtf