Like many autistic women and nonbinary people of color, I didn’t find out I was autistic until many years after the average white autistic man usually does in early childhood. I was 13 instead of 3, and that’s still actually quite early compared to many other autistic people of color. Some do not get diagnosed until late adulthood.
Students of color – especially Black, Brown, and Native students – are disproportionately over- and under-identified as disabled throughout their schooling. School systems administrators are quick to make spurious diagnoses of stigmatized and criminalized disabilities for students of color. They’re also far less likely to accurately identify learning and developmental disabilities when actually present in the same population.
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