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Marie Laveau's Modern Day BS Killer & Eater of 🍬 @youraibabydaddy.bsky.social · 11h

Correct.

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 17h

A Black child’s meltdown is seen as aggression 😕
A white child’s meltdown is seen as a cry for help 🙂‍↔️
This double standard costs lives, opportunities, and dignity.
Listen to Black autistic voices.
Believe our experiences ♾️

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Starstorm/Cyberlux @starstormx1.bsky.social · 13h

I've gotten "you're disruptive" or "you're too disturbing" so many times during meltdowns. And the worst part is when people tell me "you're doing this to yourself" and try to get me to forcefully stop it, even when I can't

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 13h

👍🏽

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‎Resintitanium30 @rrhiwhol34.bsky.social · 13h

Not to mention that a lot of people also treat kids like garbage.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 13h

Autistic people grow up it’s a spectrum for some with high support needs they may not be able to do everything but they deserve respect for a lot of us, We work. We pay bills. We vote. We struggle. We succeed. We mess up. Just like anyone else.
Stop acting like we’re are all stuck in childhood

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 13h

When you treat autistic adults like children, you justify leaving us out of jobs, relationships, and decisions about our own lives. This isn’t harmless. It’s dehumanizing

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 13h

People always say I’m like a little kid 😒 meanwhile I’m a full blown millennial

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 13h

“You’re so high-functioning!”
“Aw, you’re just like a little kid!”
These are not compliments.
They erase the complexity of our experiences and reduce us to caricatures.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 13h

“You’re so high-functioning!”
“Aw, you’re just like a little kid!”
These are not compliments.
They erase the complexity of our experiences and reduce us to caricatures.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 13h

While everyone has different support needs,
Infantilizing autistic adults isn’t kindnes it’s control. It denies autonomy, agency, and dignity. We don’t need “parenting,” we need respect 👌🏽

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 13h

Being autistic doesn’t make someone a child, Stop using baby talk. Stop calling us "kids" when we're full
Blown adults 👌🏽
Autistic adults are adults. Full stop

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 13h

infantilizing autistic adults is so degrading & condescending

Nyaautism @faerynthefeline.bsky.social · 13h

Even moreso, DO NOT TREAT PEOPLE LIKE ACTUAL CHILDREN FOLLOWING A MELTDOWN. Yeah I get it's explosive, and I get that afterward we feel insanely drained, but we're still adults and should be spoken to as such.
People see autistic people and just assume that we're just tall children :\

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 13h

I’m sorry but NT’s can be real
Jerks 😕

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Deft Artistry by Becs @deftartistry.bsky.social · 13h

This is why my neuropsychologist doesnt establish level 1,2 etc. she tells her patients that the level and needs change over time pending so many things. At one point in a persons life they could high functioning/level 1 and then something in life happens and they require more accommodations

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JC 💙🦋🛸 @colorado80537.bsky.social · 14h

😔 I think of Elijah often. It still breaks my heart (and damned near makes hyperventilate when I think of what he went through).

🐖🐷

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 14h

🥹🥹🥹💕

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Gwen @gwenssky.bsky.social · 14h

One of the saddest visuals watching the white public walk past a black child in crying in distress yet stopping to care for a white child in the same situation

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 17h

A Black child’s meltdown is seen as aggression 😕
A white child’s meltdown is seen as a cry for help 🙂‍↔️
This double standard costs lives, opportunities, and dignity.
Listen to Black autistic voices.
Believe our experiences ♾️

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 14h

I’m excited

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 14h

Just out here being me 🩷♾️

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 14h

Asexual Awareness Week (Ace Week) is at the end of this month let me design me a shirt 💜🤍🩶🖤 #acepride

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 14h

Elijah McClain should still be here

Shaene Rodney @shaenerodney.bsky.social · 15h

How they did Elijah McClain was disgusting. The police knew he was autistic and preyed on him just to terrorize a powerless young black man.

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Noelle ☀️ @noelletris.bsky.social · 15h

YES HUGE PROBLEM tell your friends

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 17h

A Black child’s meltdown is seen as aggression 😕
A white child’s meltdown is seen as a cry for help 🙂‍↔️
This double standard costs lives, opportunities, and dignity.
Listen to Black autistic voices.
Believe our experiences ♾️

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Jennifer Opal @jenniferopal.co · 15h

Absolutely this. When I have meltdowns, I’m being “too much” or “disrespectful”. It’s a disability. It’s exhausting being held to neurotypical standards and expectations.

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TherapistGoneFeral @therapistgoneferal.bsky.social · 16h

A middle class or rich white child’s cries will be heard. A poor white child’s cries will be heard more clearly than any black child’s cries….its disgusting and wrong, still true. Some kids, in all races, will be bound and gagged and made to mask.

What we do to our children is despicable.

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DefiantlyDisordered @lifeimitatingart.bsky.social · 16h

I imagine it is doubly hard for Black autistic women, seeing how society treats Black women in general 😭 💔

Listen to Black voices👏👏

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 17h

A Black child’s meltdown is seen as aggression 😕
A white child’s meltdown is seen as a cry for help 🙂‍↔️
This double standard costs lives, opportunities, and dignity.
Listen to Black autistic voices.
Believe our experiences ♾️

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Elsie Dubs @elsiedubs.bsky.social · 15h

If we don’t make space (and shut the fuck up), we’re doomed to fail
#FuckWhiteSupremacy

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 17h

A Black child’s meltdown is seen as aggression 😕
A white child’s meltdown is seen as a cry for help 🙂‍↔️
This double standard costs lives, opportunities, and dignity.
Listen to Black autistic voices.
Believe our experiences ♾️

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