🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis
@ayannasanaa.bsky.social
💜Award Winning Autism Avocate💜
Autistic/Artist/Theater/Author/Dreamer
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Host of Black Girl Diagnosed Podcast 🎙️
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Autistic/Artist/Theater/Author/Dreamer
Seen on earth 🦋
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Host of Black Girl Diagnosed Podcast 🎙️
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Rep. Mike Lawler just introduced a resolution to make Sept 19 Black Autism Acceptance & Awareness Day inspired by my advocacy. This day is deeply needed. Getting it passed will be a major step forward in autism advocacy. 🖤 here is my interview with News12
My autism gets dismissed, my Blackness gets distorted, and I’m left trying to survive inside a body people refuse to understand..
December 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
My autism gets dismissed, my Blackness gets distorted, and I’m left trying to survive inside a body people refuse to understand..
Being a Black autistic woman means every room expects me to shrink or perform, but never just be. If I speak up, I’m “angry.” If I’m anxious, I’m “attitude.” If I’m confused, I’m “difficult.”
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Being a Black autistic woman means every room expects me to shrink or perform, but never just be. If I speak up, I’m “angry.” If I’m anxious, I’m “attitude.” If I’m confused, I’m “difficult.”
Being a Black autistic woman means knowing that the world is quicker to fear me than understand me. I can be quiet, shaking, overwhelmed, trying to hold myself together and somehow I’m still labeled “problematic.” People don’t see my sensory overload; they see a threat.
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Being a Black autistic woman means knowing that the world is quicker to fear me than understand me. I can be quiet, shaking, overwhelmed, trying to hold myself together and somehow I’m still labeled “problematic.” People don’t see my sensory overload; they see a threat.
The intersection hits hard, and some days it feels like nobody sees the human underneath all their projections.
December 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The intersection hits hard, and some days it feels like nobody sees the human underneath all their projections.
Being a Black autistic woman feels like living in a world that thinks I’m too Black to be autistic and too autistic to be “acceptable.” The world reads my differences as defiance, my anxiety as disrespect
December 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Being a Black autistic woman feels like living in a world that thinks I’m too Black to be autistic and too autistic to be “acceptable.” The world reads my differences as defiance, my anxiety as disrespect
Being a Black autistic woman is being punished for traits that others get sympathy for. A shutdown gets called an “attitude.” Stimming gets side eyed. Needing quiet gets mistaken for being antisocial. I’m fighting racism and ableism at the same damn time, and neither one ever takes a day off.
December 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Being a Black autistic woman is being punished for traits that others get sympathy for. A shutdown gets called an “attitude.” Stimming gets side eyed. Needing quiet gets mistaken for being antisocial. I’m fighting racism and ableism at the same damn time, and neither one ever takes a day off.
Being a Black autistic woman means people decide who I am before I even open my mouth. I walk into a room and the stereotypes hit first “aggressive,” “loud,” “intimidating” even when I’m barely speaking. My autism gets erased under everyone else’s assumptions about my Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Being a Black autistic woman means people decide who I am before I even open my mouth. I walk into a room and the stereotypes hit first “aggressive,” “loud,” “intimidating” even when I’m barely speaking. My autism gets erased under everyone else’s assumptions about my Blackness.
Being a Black autistic woman means navigating stereotypes on top of sensory overload, social misreads, and communication differences. The intersection makes life complicated, but our resilience and creativity deserve more recognition.
December 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Being a Black autistic woman means navigating stereotypes on top of sensory overload, social misreads, and communication differences. The intersection makes life complicated, but our resilience and creativity deserve more recognition.
Being a Black autistic woman is masking so well that people assume I’m fine until I shut down. The pressure to perform socially, professionally, and culturally leaves little room for authenticity or rest.
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Being a Black autistic woman is masking so well that people assume I’m fine until I shut down. The pressure to perform socially, professionally, and culturally leaves little room for authenticity or rest.
Being a Black autistic woman often means being overlooked in diagnosis and misunderstood afterward. So many of us grow up thinking we’re “just weird” or “too much,” when really we were unsupported autistic kids who became unsupported autistic adults.
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Being a Black autistic woman often means being overlooked in diagnosis and misunderstood afterward. So many of us grow up thinking we’re “just weird” or “too much,” when really we were unsupported autistic kids who became unsupported autistic adults.
Being a Black autistic woman is navigating a world that labels me “strong” instead of seeing when I’m overwhelmed. The expectation to endure everything without support can hide our burnout until it’s too late.
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Being a Black autistic woman is navigating a world that labels me “strong” instead of seeing when I’m overwhelmed. The expectation to endure everything without support can hide our burnout until it’s too late.
Being a Black autistic woman means constantly code-switching just to be understood. People read my silence as attitude, my sensory limits as “overreacting,” and it’s exhausting trying to explain what’s simply my baseline.
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Being a Black autistic woman means constantly code-switching just to be understood. People read my silence as attitude, my sensory limits as “overreacting,” and it’s exhausting trying to explain what’s simply my baseline.
I’m kinda not in the mood for no snow 🥴😂
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I’m kinda not in the mood for no snow 🥴😂
Happy Sunday ✨
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Happy Sunday ✨
Once you realize you are worth more than being the placeholder friend, your self worth will grow 🌺
November 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Once you realize you are worth more than being the placeholder friend, your self worth will grow 🌺
Thank you for sharing
It’s #SmallBusinessSaturday! I’d love your support sharing my holiday books costs $0 🫶🏽✨
Celebrate Black girl magic with two Christmas stories one for autistic girls and one for neurotypical girls. Two stories, one message: Black girls belong. ❤️🎄
Links in bio!
Celebrate Black girl magic with two Christmas stories one for autistic girls and one for neurotypical girls. Two stories, one message: Black girls belong. ❤️🎄
Links in bio!
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Thank you for sharing
It’s #SmallBusinessSaturday! I’d love your support sharing my holiday books costs $0 🫶🏽✨
Celebrate Black girl magic with two Christmas stories one for autistic girls and one for neurotypical girls. Two stories, one message: Black girls belong. ❤️🎄
Links in bio!
Celebrate Black girl magic with two Christmas stories one for autistic girls and one for neurotypical girls. Two stories, one message: Black girls belong. ❤️🎄
Links in bio!
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It’s #SmallBusinessSaturday! I’d love your support sharing my holiday books costs $0 🫶🏽✨
Celebrate Black girl magic with two Christmas stories one for autistic girls and one for neurotypical girls. Two stories, one message: Black girls belong. ❤️🎄
Links in bio!
Celebrate Black girl magic with two Christmas stories one for autistic girls and one for neurotypical girls. Two stories, one message: Black girls belong. ❤️🎄
Links in bio!
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November 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Rather than seeing being autistic as ‘a problem to fix’ I chose to embrace my differences, encourage self acceptance & celebrate diversity
November 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Rather than seeing being autistic as ‘a problem to fix’ I chose to embrace my differences, encourage self acceptance & celebrate diversity
When people ask my nephew if they can hug him he says no 😂 I love that for him he’s four but kids have the right to decide if they want to be hugged or not
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 AM
When people ask my nephew if they can hug him he says no 😂 I love that for him he’s four but kids have the right to decide if they want to be hugged or not
All of the categories my old caregiver fell under :
Financial abuse
Emotional & physical abuse
Neglect & endangerment
Isolation
Medical abuse & neglect
What a shitty human 🥴
Financial abuse
Emotional & physical abuse
Neglect & endangerment
Isolation
Medical abuse & neglect
What a shitty human 🥴
November 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
All of the categories my old caregiver fell under :
Financial abuse
Emotional & physical abuse
Neglect & endangerment
Isolation
Medical abuse & neglect
What a shitty human 🥴
Financial abuse
Emotional & physical abuse
Neglect & endangerment
Isolation
Medical abuse & neglect
What a shitty human 🥴
I was ready to crash out when Netflix crashed 😂
Gonna be ignoring everyone all night I’ll be watching Stranger Things
November 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I was ready to crash out when Netflix crashed 😂
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November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving take care 🫶🏽
November 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Happy Thanksgiving take care 🫶🏽
These are things I do on Thanksgiving btw to protect my own well being
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
These are things I do on Thanksgiving btw to protect my own well being