As a black man I feel that my race is ignored on this forum

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Every person on the front page of this site is a white man. This is racist!

I doubt that anyone else even knew that you were black before this.

What don't you submit some articles for the front page?

I hope the editors are just clueless. Did you notice when you joined that there are no choices for gender other than male and female? My Trans daughter would have a kitten (or is that speciesist?), so I didn't tell her. We each have the energy for only so many battles.

Another choice would be to open up a website for black aspies; but that would be segregationist, wouldn't it?

Again, if any "people of color" would submit thoughtful articles of their own, I'm sure that the owner of this website would give due consideration for posting them.

I'm a negro, but don't worry, brother. White or black, you'll still receive the same love, or hate, on WP.

I just went to the front page and found this black man next to sheldon:

http://wrongplanet.net/off-rails-docume ... -mccollum/

They call him a thief. Wow!

I don't think race has much to do with this site. Unless, you consider Aspien a race of people. I am always surprised when someone mentions someone's race because I just don't see it. I don't care what color your eyes or hair or skin is, there are jerks and decent people in all races.

Thanks to the DNA and Genome discoveries we now know there is no such thing as race. In fact no color of human is as far apart as the common Chimpanzee is from its cousin the Bonobo Chimpanzee

Unfortunately for us black people we don't get diagnosed in the same way that white folks do. Because of that this lady started up a program called color of autism. Their claim is to get the word out about blacks and other POC people on the spectrum who many still remained diagnosed.

http://www.thecolorofautism.org/

For grins and giggles...

Three ASD boys in my daughter's grade level are black. Another two are from Korea and one from Dubai.

Autism is a diagnosis if your family has means and is educated enough to do battle with the system. If you are poor and uneducated, your kid is f****d unless he/she is so low TPTB have to do something.

Those five boys families parents are all upper middle management, and work for the a multinational company.

So no, race per say is not a block to getting an autism diagnosis. It's money and resources. A poor parent from Flint will not get access to services, or even know where to get them, and how to battle the school, doctors etc to do right by her/his child. The five families above got immediate help from their peers, and people going to bat for them at the start. But all those people have multiple university degrees or advance degrees. When you know people with pull, things get done.

My big b***h with A$ is how they sell autism as an upper middle class, white male issue. I have seen the token screaming white girl toddler thrown into the mix. I guess that is trying. A lot of their videos are majority white little boys, and families who have some money.

All the awareness in the world won't help if the parent can't afford help, or know how to get it at a reduced cost. All the big deal children autism specialists, in my area, are NO INSURANCE only. You pay up front. The ABA folks there are the same deal. I couldn't afford to pay that for my kid, and I'm not ghetto poor. You can submit claims and battle your insurance for money back, but it's still cash up from.

Side note: I call the three boys black, because they are from different South American countries, and do not consider themselves African American at all. My daughter's school had to overhaul the belief that all black looking kids are not African American, and don't appreciate being lumped in with them. That was a fun school year...

The web site the PP listed is great. I'm gonna donate a little bit to them when I get my check.

Did you not see the article about Darius McCollum? He's black, and the article has been there for at least a week..

Or did you not actually look at the front page before posting your complaint?

Now that is worse than the Wrong Planet site, if we are still talking about the lack of diverse race representation in an Autistic home page. It seems to be exclusively geared toward African Americans. What about the African Europeans? Or, what if Wrong Planet actually said it was for whites with autism? The door swings both ways dude.

First Nations here. It's not racist that most people here happen to be white, it's just unfortunately how it is in some countries.

firstly color didnt even cross the admins mind, secondly there is a black man on the front page.

go easy on the race card, in the future...

I can understand my members of the Canadian first nations might not be pleased with how the course of history for their country went. However as phrased here; just substitute white with black/yellow/red and you will get the point. So I presume this is just a bad choice of words.

Race is not speciation. It is just simply morphological changes. If there was not 'race' the forensic people would not be able to tell such things as nationality of descent just on bones alone.

Im a black girl. We are here, dude.

It's just that autism is under diagnosed within the black community and is often dismissed as "white people thing". This is partly the reason why there are not many of us here.