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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis

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💜Award Winning Autism Avocate💜 Autistic/Artist/Theater/Author/Dreamer Seen on earth 🦋 Please share pinned post 🫶🏽♾️ Host of Black Girl Diagnosed Podcast 🎙️ Www.linktree.com/phenomenallyautistic

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 10d

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

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 16h

Black autistic people face double (and often triple) marginalization. When we uplift Black autistic voices, we fight against erasure and create space for authenticity and power…

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 16h

Supporting Black autistic voices means honoring the full spectrum of identity: race, neurology, culture, and lived experience. It’s about visibility, dignity, and justice 👍🏽

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 16h

Black autistic people bring powerful, unique perspectives that challenge stereotypes and push systems to be better. Centering us means we ALL benefit from a more inclusive world

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 16h

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18h

Respect to those who got here first.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 22h

Happy Fuck Christopher Columbus Day

A Native American woman in traditional jewelry holding her middle finger up text on the bottom of the image says fuck Christopher Columbus

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

🖤

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

I never understood why people take offense when you try to tell them they are pronouncing your name wrong the audacity

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

My weighted blanket fixes everything even cramps 😂😭

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

Having dealt with former caregivers who have kept me locked in rooms, filmed me during meltdowns & told me nobody would ever want me has my trust for humans very low, and that’s not even half of the things they’ve done 🙂‍↔️

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe if people didn’t coddle you, you wouldn’t be disabled- a narcissist that is no longer in my life

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone says my name wrong 🥴😂

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Dr. RL @papierg.blacksky.app · 1d

Yes—I too think of him and so many young Black children gun downed by white policemen who want to put a trophy on their record.Same w/the white woman police officer-yelling taser-taser-taser-as she pulls out her gun to shoot&the white woman police that killed a Black man in his own apartment. Hate 🤬

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

“Hi I’m Wesley & I’m autistic I was wondering do you get judged a lot because I do so much”

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@judybytheocean @judybytheocean.bsky.social · 2d

I recently responded to a CMPD Major who was reporting on the shooting death of a Black 4 year old, and he referred to him as a "young man!" I posted to the report that he was A BABY,A TODDLER! Black children are often deprived of the innocence of childhood by white people who "adulterize"them!🤬

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 2d

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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𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 1d

Or we have delayed empathy. Especially when we are ambushed in social situations and don't have time to properly process.

I'm very empathetic to most things but have delayed empathy on occasion. It takes me a bit to catch up in those situations and have an appropriate reaction.

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Marie Laveau's Modern Day BS Killer & Eater of 🍬 @youraibabydaddy.bsky.social · 2d

Correct.

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Starstorm/Cyberlux @starstormx1.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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‎Resintitanium30 @rrhiwhol34.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 2d

“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 · 2d

“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 · 2d

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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