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As an autistic advocate I think it’s important to use the voice I have to raise awareness of the inequality in our community. Black people are much less likely to be diagnosed as autistic compared to white people. They are also much more likely to be harmed or even killed for showing their autistic traits.

From listening to black autistics it’s clear that autism is not being diagnosed or even considered amongst black individuals. Neal, who is a black autistic person, spoke about his experience and stated: “Black people get misdiagnosed and disciplined and killed for having undiagnosed autism in great numbers. It took me longer to consider I might have it because I’d literally never heard of a black autistic person.”

This is something we as a community must change. We have to speak up about this. Getting an autism diagnosis is tricky enough at the best of times but you are so much less likely to be diagnosed if you are black. I had a message once from someone asking me if it was even possible for them to be autistic because they were black and that hit me hard. Black autistics are not being given a voice, they are not being given validation, they are not being diagnosed. This has to change.

If you are a black autistic person who is self diagnosed or professionally diagnosed, or a black person who suspects you are autistic, please message me and share your experience because I want to make your voice heard. It’s important we speak up about the inequality that’s happening in our community and the injustice that black autistics receive. We have to do something. We have to change this.

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Personally I’m a Christian, and to quote something I shared on FB, this is how I see the Black Lives Movement and why All Lives doesn’t quite get it: “Of course all His sheep matter. But there is ONE, not safe like the others. He leaves His SAFE sheep to save the one who is in harms way. Stop defending those who are SAFE, yourself included.” I am white and therefore safe, but we should be protecting those who are in danger. And right now one group seems to be in a lot of danger.

I’ve got nothing to add to this since I’m not Christian - but if it helps you to think about it this way, more power to you!

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UMMM a bitch is lactose intolerant but I'm a Ben & Jerry's fan now.

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Black Panther punching trump by Timothy Brown

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Do you cry when you cut onions? Here’s a simple gas mask that can be made from home for cheap!! It makes cooking with onions do much easier, share with ur friends in case they’re cutting up onions tonight or ever!!

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Dolores Huerta in “Dolores” (Peter Bratt, 2017)

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people who say that all lives matter don't fully understand the situation. so please reblog this so everybody can understand it better.

let me try to explain it to you like this:

Imagine I trip and I scrape my knee. It bleeds, so I get a bandaid. Now you want a bandaid too. You don't need a bandaid though because you didn't trip. You didn't scrape your knee. Your knee isn't bleeding.

Or maybe like this:

Imagine being at an event for supporting people with breast cancer. Nobody would run in and scream "ALL CANCER MATTERS". It's obvious. That's a given. Nobody is saying it doesn't but that's not the point of it.

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FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURHOOD PUNK ASS ARCHIVIST HERE WITH A MESSAGE

if you cannot protest or donate, and you’ve been retweeting and reblogging your ass off, here’s another thing you can do from home to help out later on down the line.

we are dealing with a fascist police state. fascists love nothing more than controlling the media and taking away primary sources of their evildoing, so lets take some steps toward taking that power away from them.

the wayback machine is a tool from the internet archive, a nonprofit website that seeks to capture websites as they change over time. the wayback machine is free to use and will be able to help protect all of the first-person accounts of the crimes being committed by the state during these protests for human rights.

this is what the homescreen of the wayback machine looks like:

that blue circle is where you put a permalink to a tweet you want to add to the wayback machine

that red circle is how you find the permalink to a tweet. click “copy link to tweet” and put it in the blue circle above, and there you have it! save what you see. don’t let anyone take away all of the documentation of these crimes the state has committed and declare it fake news.

fuck the cops. fuck orange mussolini. fuck racists, and fuck fascist government regimes.

dont forget: there’s nothing more punk than voting, libraries, and loving each other.

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I doubt this will get much traction on here, but Puerto Rico’s governor has just passed Código Civil (Civil Code) that has loopholes regarding women’s and LGBT+ rights. This code was passed despite activists’ call for a veto, and was intentionally speedily passed so that public hearings would not take place

In a nutshell, women’s bodily autonomy has the potential to be restricted which can take away their right to abortions, and the discrimination bans against the LGBT+ community are able to be overridden. 

5 trans people have died violently in Puerto Rico since the beginning of 2020. 

I ask my followers and mutuals to please reblog. There is so much going on in America today and this is one thing to add. There are protests for #BlackLivesMatter in Puerto Rico and a significant black community there. As an Afro Latina and a member of the LGBT community, I ask you to spread this and help.

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FYI! Sephora points can be redeemed as a charity donation!!