Do you as an autistic person have a racial identity?

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i have found, it is better to be invisible around attractive anybody, than visible.

towards people who you know are attractive in general-- but not to you, in actuality---
you have to act really bland .. reaaally bland and invisible..


because
otherwise they misinterpret everything anyone says as though that person has a crush on them and even brag about it to people as though it's true.

i knew a girl like that..

she always thought her male teachers wanted her, and everyone else male, and would blatantly say so, or very close to that
by giving anecdotal evidence (inappropriate/irrelevant to the class)..and i knew the one she kept trying to flirt with was just waiting for her to shut up so he could go on..

she would do things to try and show off her (non existent) butt, etc, and comment on it and inappropriately ask the male teacher if her cleavage was too low, that she would have sex with Johnny Depp and do whatever he said, that she had an XYZ size bra, etc, to the teacher--
in front of the whole class of completely Egyptian boys (except for 4 girls, and she was one of them)... i mean, she just wanted that admiration voiced by the teacher, and he just would politely ignore her--


he might have been a person with Level 1 ASD / Asperger's, actually, he seemed like it to me even then-

like 'gaydar' but 'ASD-ar'--


but he was 'cute' and young, so that made him fair game for such girls who were disappointed when they found out he was already married, and to a teacher who wasn't anything special, unlike them

I oppose the concept of race as it was invented by colonial Europeans to differential subjects from their masters.

I agree with Magz that language and country of residence is what should identify people...

I identify as Australian and English speaking

i identify as citizen of earth and english-mis-speaking.

I am culturally American, and I'm ethnically Colombian.

I'm racially autistic.

I'm white, and just a little sub-Saharan African and Native American. Other white people ask me if I am Asian a lot, but I am not. I think people just recognize that my eye shape is unusual and since white people consider themselves arbiters of race I just get othered into the first category of "eyes look different" that they can think of.

If I went to North America, I would be interpreted as "white" because of my colors. I have some Middle Eastern features and I'm sometimes interpreted as a Jew - though, my aunt's genealogic research didn't confirm it. However, there were a few Fathers Unknown and some Jews integrated into Polish society since Early Middle Ages, so you can never tell.

In Poland, while we host a multitude of beliefs and concepts, the most common way of determining one's ethnic identity is their first language. I think "nationalism" is more common here than "racism" - you can be discriminated against for your passport rather than the color of your skin.
Poles don't have much inclination towards endogamy, so after Poland became open to the world in the 1990s, more and more children of various mixed marriages are being raised here as Polish.

I have a racial identity. I identify as a part of the human race and people come in many beautiful colours.

"Race" is to "Human" as "Breed" is to "Dog".

Try telling the owner of a Rotweiler that the differences between his dog and a Teacup Poodle are nothing more than mere social concepts.