Autistic & Brown: Real Life Experience
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- In this video I get candid about my real life experience of being an Autistic Woman of Colour living in Europe.
My wish for this video is that it helps another person recognize when they are being subjected to prejudice and profiling and not just brush it off and give the other person the benefit of the doubt.
Let's call it what it is. It is raci$m.
And this lowers people's tolerance for neurodiversity as well.
If you have been struggling with a similar issue in your life or your child's life and want a second opinion on it, I'd love to discuss this with you and support you.
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Hi beauty, your voice is so important. Thank you for sharing your experience here. How potent and impactful it would be to see a panel of autistic BIWoC come together to discuss challenges and celebrations together in community to build greater levels awareness... Love to see you pop up on my algorithm! Keep shining, keep sharing. Your voice and experience is so important.
I totally agree ALL neurodivergent voices matter and it's great to have Neurodivergent mom sharing hers🫶 racism has no place in supporting our needs. Social justice for neurodiversity and for all skin colours!
@@bearandbluebirdvlogs Thank you for your input, it's certainly important and something to strive for in our world. Interestingly enough, I see mostly lighter skin colors being platformed and pedestaled in the autism community and on CZcams. Unfortunately, it seems, more often than not, Autistic BIWoC get far less representation, which is why it's important to create more space for autistic BIWoC voices to be heard.
I’m also eager to see more diversity in the autism activism space. Especially from south east Asia where I’m from. There seems to be a good amount of Hispanic representation but I haven’t found any with a similar background to mine. I’d like to speak up more about the autism experience in my community.
That is disgusting that you and others have faced racism. Its unacceptable. Keep sharing, we can bring change 🫶🫶🫶
So much of it is systemic. But I think the other mom who was rude to me because my kid was being more playful than the other kids and making up his own way to play rather than follow instructions… I am still scarred by her. I have a gut feeling that one of her boys might also be neurodivergent and she is in such denial that any other “different” kid and their mom is triggering her and so she’s mean to others.
Or maybe I’m just trying too hard to make sense of this type of negativity
@@NeurodivergentMom I completely agree that it's systemic 💔 honestly I find sometimes those that are neurodivergent (especially undiagnosed adults) can be some of the least tolerable of others. Maybe they need some control because they are struggling, or struggle with empathy, or have built coping strategies and so find it hard to watch others embracing or accepting difference, we can only guess. But I feel there is definitely a connection with why people can react so harshly. I hope you know whatever happened it was her issue to be so inflexible, keep being unapologetically you 🫶
@@bearandbluebirdvlogs thanks 😊 I’m waiting until I bump into her next so I can practice this 💪
I don't want to dismiss you or anything but I imagine that the lady that refused to let your son have another turn before hers is pushy, self centered, and entitled and would have said the same thing to anyone regardless of their race, as long as they don't look like they will be aggressive towards her.
Yes she’s a typical bully. Insecure to the core. And I was an even easier target because of my active autistic adhd son and my skin colour (also I’m not fluent in Swiss German so that made me an easy target as well). It ends with awareness. Now I know and I’m ready to stand up for myself to her.
I am sorry about your son's troubles being judged.
I too have experienced the exact same treatment as you have, which was not due to the color of my skin, which is pale German colored, but it was a i
experience of being Infantalized, primarily due to my identity as an adult with autism, which is also a trigger of mine after a lifetime of experiencing infantalization during my youth due to the combined social stigmas of having autism, ADHD, and greatly exacerbated because I was a member of a lower socio-economic class than my peers in my grade at school.
It is throgh the lenses of the prevalence of infantalization of adults who have autism, and the lens of intersectionality that I can say with confidence that it seems unlikely to me that you experienced that bigoted judgment due to racism alone, but more likely it was due to the combined effect of multiple factors of forms of bigotry, the most significant of which is the bigltty that alistic people feel towards the people with autism.
You’re right about it being a combination of factors that lead to that sort of treatment. It’s ableism for sure