Karategurl wrote:
Are black women with autism invisible in the black community?
In all likely hood, yes, my experience in both Europe and the US has been that being black is a collective term that doesn't allow for much nuance. If race is a social construct then my experience of being black is like a blue print for this. I'll quote myself "my ethnicity is handed to me ready made as I debark from the plane." Being black is different is wherever I go. It somehow exists independent of me in the countries I've lived in. As for my experience with being black in the US, I can only say that (and the research statistics confirm this) an African American is 16x less likely to be diagnosed with autism than an European American, so the prevalence of autism in the US black communities is certainly an undercount. Women are uncounted in general so I wouldn't be surprised if an autistic black woman feels like a unicorn, at least in the US.
On meetup I found this group out of London:
https://www.meetup.com/Central-London-ADD-ADHD-Women-of-Colour-Support-group/ and this group out of British Columbia
https://www.meetup.com/Victoria-Women-with-Autism-Aspergers-Syndrome/Checkout:
https://twitter.com/AutismSouls I am invisible until I scream and shout, then
All Eyes on Me.
I am invisible until I hum to block out the noise
around me, then All Eyes on Me.
I am invisible until I flap, spin or run around
the room, then All Eyes on Me.
I am invisible until I throw objects in the air,
then All Eyes on Me.
I am invisible until I laugh and no one else is
laughing, then All Eyes on Me.
I am invisible until I decide not to be, that's
when All Eyes will be on Me.
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25 Nov 2017, 2:28 am
