Tee Cee

Not Your Average TV Producer | Presenter | Writer-Director 🎬

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[autistic-af]

There's just one major thing that I don't think is acknowledged enough about late diagnosed autistics/ADHD (and probably other neurodivergences):

The floor drops away from under you when you're diagnosed as an adult.

You've spent years perfecting coping mechanisms, setting masks perfectly in place, practicing socialising, forcing things that made you uncomfortable or confused (for reasons you couldn't comprehend).

Then you get the diagnosis and... That's it. No one tells you what to do. How to cope, how to survive.

All you know is that you've spent your life hurting yourself. Your mental health is shot, you're most likely depressed, anxious, burntout...

And you never had to do that. It didn't have to be that way.

I'm not saying I wished I was diagnosed as a child. I don't. That would have a whole other bag of problems.

I just wish there was more in place for us. I wish we weren't abandoned by the medical community at 18.

[butterflyinthewell]

To the neurotypicals who don’t understand autistic sensory issues:

Imagine you have an eyelash in your eye. You are stopped in your tracks until you remove the eyelash because it’s unbearable.

Now imagine everyone yells at you that it’s not that bad.

[humongousfurybeard]

New research on the gender ratio in autism by McCrossin (2022), and guess what:

80% of females remain undiagnosed

Screenshot: "The true male-to-female ratio [in ASD] appears to be 3:4. Eighty percent of females remain undiagnosed at age 18, which has serious consequences for the mental health of young women"

Link to article

[thisisteecee]

"Dear autism, I didn't think I was your type. They say you go for someone male, usually pale but looks like, you knew we were a match from the start." - Talisha 'Tee Cee' Johnson

#tooautisticforblack

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[thisisteecee]

What does being black and autistic mean to you?

Join us by sharing your stories and positivity. Please use the hashtag - #tooautisticforblack

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"The conversation of autism and race can no longer be ignored." - Talisha 'Tee Cee' Johnson

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[thisisteecee]

"I wanted to create a hybrid of a visual essay and documentary. Sometimes when you're trying to address a sensitive topic about a particular community, its easy for people to switch off or assume 'this is not made for me'.

Using visceral visuals, sounds and bold colours was about making story-telling a multi-sensory experience... you can't help but pay attention when something is irresistibly stunning to look at, you can't help but listen, you can't help but FEEL."

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[thisisteecee]

"According to society, I'm not meant to be black, female and high-functioning so it makes it incredibly difficult for people to notice or even believe that someone like me could possibly have autism." - Talisha 'Tee Cee' Johnson

IG: @thisisteecee Twitter: @thisisteecee #TooAutisticForBlack

[thisisteecee]

Too Autistic For Black a short documentary about what it's like to be black, British and marginalised in the autism discourse.

Written and Directed by Talisha 'Tee Cee' Johnson

Streaming now on discovery+ - https://www.discoveryplus.com/gb/video/black-britain-unspoken/too-autistic-for-black

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