Navigating Autism as a Woman of Color

Understand Deep thinker. Black autistic individuals are different than white autistic individuals. I am black

Hunnyyyy I feel it, especially in the black community any mental health or disorder that makes you look weak is a no-no and we do not talk about it🙄 that's why this generation needs to come together and support each other! And the whole mental and emotional abuse especially as autistic was just omfg! Being abused because of something no one told us we had on top of not understanding why we did it the first place! Being undiagnosed until adulthood it out everything into perspective! I mean the stims were there and idk how no one noticed but it definitely sucks and I totally get the feeling of noone truly understanding you at all!

i am another poc autistic but i am trans non-binary masculine and hispanic. i relate to everything you said in this post. i’m still learning a lot about how to unmask and that it’s okay to be myself around ppl i’m close to

I'm an autistic poc. Yeah, it's weird with so many autistic places being so white, but yeah.

Hey I’m an autistic women of color and my father is an immigrant as well. So growing up my family knew I was different but didn’t have me tested for anything. But when I turned 18 I went and got myself tested. Telling my parents I have autism they instantly refused the idea and told me that my doctors didn’t know what they were talking about. I have to now work hard as an adult on my own to figure out who I am after so many years of convincing myself I knew exactly who I am.

I'm a brown autistic AFAB person, I'm not a woman but since I was raised as such I relate to quite a bit of your post. I've never really felt like I relate to my white autistic peers as much as I should. I learned at a fairly young age to fake eye contact so my mother would stop forcing me and eventually I just isolated myself from that entire part of the family and now we rarely speak.

I am an autistic person of color. My parents didn't bother having fake conversations with me but I was expected to act neurotypical. And they didn't bother to get me diagnosed either. But I can relate to not being able to express autistic traits as a child.

Hellos, I'm also an autistic person of colour! ♡ I can totally relate to your experience /gen

Hello I am a black autistic woman

I can’t really comment because I’m white, but I did want to tell you that there is an #autizzy tag on tiktok that is specific for black autistic voices!