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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Why Race and Autism Cannot Be Separated in Lived Experience

The comment (below from a substack user) suggests that being Black and being autistic are “two different things that don’t have a significant effect on each other.” This statement overlooks the realit...

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I really hate the fact that the holidays are coming 😂😭

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 5h

Autistic people are already navigating a world not built for us. When the public conversation turns hostile, we lose support, trust, and safety. The harm isn’t theoretical. We feel it in our bodies, our relationships, and our futures…

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine watching the world argue about whether the way your brain works is real, valid, or even welcome. That’s what many autistic people are going through right now. It's not "controversy" to us it's erasure.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 5h

The wave after wave of negative attention on autism right now doesn’t stay online. It shows up in job interviews, in classrooms, in doctors’ offices. It makes people suspicious of our needs. It makes them question our worth

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 5h

When autism is treated like a cultural battleground, autistic people stop feeling safe in our own identities. We hear the judgment, the mockery, the eugenics-adjacent takes. It’s not abstract to us it’s personal. It's painful. And it's constant tf

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 5h

A lot of the current discourse about autism isn’t just “debate” it’s dehumanizing. When autistic people are constantly framed as problems to fix or burdens to manage, it wears us down. You’re not “just asking questions.” You’re reshaping how others see us

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 5h

How exhausting 🫠

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Health Secretary Kennedy, Trump link circumcision to autism through Tylenol

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. noted boys who are circumcised have higher rates of autism, which he said could be a result of Tylenol.

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The Quiet Struggle Of Growing Up Being An Undiagnosed Black Autistic Woman

For years, I thought the way I felt was normal but at the same time I always knew I.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 15h

Black autistic girls exist and they’ve always been here. It’s time the world stopped overlooking them. Representation saves lives 🫶🏽 ‘I’m Autistic & I’m Phenomenal’ is that representation all little Black autistic girls need! 🖤🫶🏽♾️

Phenomenally autistic holding a copy of her children’s book I’m autistic & im phenomenall the cover is pink with a little black girl with 2 Afro puff ponytails , the background of the photo is pink & teal ombré & phenomenally autistic has curly hair hoop earrings and a pink T-shirt on

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

When you're autistic but undiagnosed, you internalize everything.
The confusion.
The social rejection.
The burnout.
You start to think you are the problem.
Not your brain. Not the system.
Just you.
And that’s a heavy thing to carry
It was such a relief receiving my diagnosis 🙏🏽

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

Growing up undiagnosed autistic feels like trying to run a race with invisible weights strapped to you. Everyone else seems to move forward effortlessly. You start wondering, "Why am I always behind?"
Eventually, you just assume you're a failure.
You're not. You were just misunderstood

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

Before my autism diagnosis, I thought I was , Too sensitive. Too weird.
I didn’t know I was masking. Or surviving.
I thought I was failing at life, but I was doing the impossible every day.

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

Imagine spending your whole childhood thinking you're broken…
Because school is overwhelming.
Friendships don’t make sense.
You're always "too much" or "too quiet."
That’s what growing up undiagnosed autistic feels like.
You don’t just miss support you miss yourself ✨

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

So many of us slipped through the cracks because we were “too smart,” “too quiet,” or “too well-behaved.”
Turns out we were just masking.
Autism in Black women is real.
My diagnosis didn’t change who I am it explained it 🖤♾️✨🫶🏽

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The way that people don’t understand that autism is a spectrum and some require high support while others do not …

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 9h

"Because of the media's relentless negativity, fearmongering, & pseudoscience in covering autism, “ #profoundAutism " communities are often magnets for parents whose goal is to cure or treat autism, instead of understanding how to support an autistic child."

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 9h

Look what my dad bought me 🩷😭 Care Bears are one of my special interests ♾️🫶🏽

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John Templeton @jwtempleton.bsky.social · 12h

"My diagnosis didn't change who I am it explained it" resonates strongly with my experience too!

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

Get y’all some happy little trees 🌲

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

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Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

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Steve Jones @stevejones20.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT A SHOT FROM A'JA WILSON

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

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

Neurodiversity-Lite is a diluted, performative version of #Neurodiversity —using its language without its substance; followed & practiced by those who wield its concepts superficially, without understanding them or why they matter. By @kieranrose.bsky.social:

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The Danger of Misunderstanding Neuro-Affirming Practice - The Autistic Advocate

In this balanced and reflective article Kieran Rose discusses the dangers of misunderstanding neuro-affirming practice.

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

Autism in Black women gets missed because we’re expected to adapt, code-switch, and “act right” from day one.
Masking becomes second nature before we even know who we are. Early support could change everything if people knew what to look for

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