Any black females with aspergers?!?

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I have only met 1 half black aspie female in my life ..... I'm starting to feel like I'm the only one.....and even the one I met...did not grow up with the very social black culture...

There's an aspie meetup group here in Seattle with a black female in it. I've never met her because I've never went to any of the meetup meetings even though I've belonged to that group for months. Ahhh...such is the life of those of us with avoidance issues.

I'm not a black female but I'm a black male and I'm aspie.

But yea, African American aspies are very rare , I only know of two thanks to one of my special interests. There both male though.

Posted earlier but got tangled up in rephrasing:

I've seen a couple of black aspie women posting here (at least those who explicitly identified themselves as such in some way, so there may be more) in the past, but I haven't seen posts from them in some time.

Me! I often feel like I'm the only one.

Why is color important?
Because of the common cultural background? That's the only thing I can think of... should be a bit easier to communicate and all.
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Interesting

I stumbled onto one on an aspie Christian blog; probably as close to my ideal mate if it was a world of win for me.

It really bothers me when people say colour doesn't matter. Black isn't just the colour of my skin, it is a lot more complicated than that.

I have seen a very small number post on the internet, videos and such.

But here is the thing, the majority were Bi-racial(White/Black).

They identified as both Black and Bi-racial.




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Don't be ridiculous, all aspies are white, male, between the ages of 7 and 13, atheist, and like trains.

Has anyone seen the older Degrassi: TNG series? I've always thought Liberty kind of seemed Aspieish to me.

It's hard to explain. No, colour isn't important but sometimes it's hard to identify with certain things when you're a different race. For me certain things could be anything from how to deal with the kind of hair I have to which side of your family you identify with more. Any topics like that. Also, it helps to feel that you're not the only black, Latino, Asian, etc. out there. Also, it's true....I haven't seen too many black Aspies out there. I'm thinking there are but maybe they just are able to cover the traits more. I'm half Asian and I don't seem to see a lot of Aspie Asians out there either, particularly girls. Personally I'm used to not being able to identify completely with races since I'm mixed race but I can see how it can be easier if you were black and you found the odd black Aspie out there to identify with.

I like posting with everybody, but I send up a little cheer inside my heart when I find another dyke Aspie is posting, especially a butch. I think we're all glad whenever we come across someone we don't have to explain certain things to, which is why we like Wrong Planet. Besides, sometimes recognition of a commonality is just fun. It's like when I discover someone out in the world who's on the spectrum. Maybe others might not understand why that matters, especially if we're both able to pass.

On the other hand, who wants to be steered towards someone just because they assume that the commonality will make the two of you great friends? For example, what if one of my stims really annoyed you in person, and my special interests bored you to tears? So, why should somebody else think you and I ought to suddenly spend lots of time together and be great friends?

But, yes, we're all more than the surface level things that identify us, whether it's because our category is much more deep and rich than what immediately shows or because we're more than just our categories. So, yes, all this really does matter.

We're all typing here, so I would think it reasonable to guess there are more black, female Aspies around here than anyone is aware of. Who can tell if it isn't specifically mentioned? Now that the subject has its own thread, anyone looking for more can find those who post about it here. So, I think creating it was a good move. It's like a little beacon.

On another note about this, if females are under-diagnosed, for various reasons, should we be surprised if white psychologists aren't always aware of how Asperger's might present in anyone who isn't white? Also, there may be a trust issue preventing parents from getting their kids assessed. Along these lines, although I'm an adult, my father might be very uncomfortable with this whole idea. His grandparents came to America from Eastern Europe to escape the pogroms, in which they'd lost two children. Then came the Holocaust, in which all kinds of people suffered, and of which he is, of course, well aware. Given that he already knows I'm out as gay, and that I have scoliosis, I don't think he'd want there to be yet another thing that would make the authorities come after me if things got really bad in this country. (He's also a conspiracy theorist these days.) So, we should think of what might cause a lack of trust that might even be widespread within a culture and that might inhibit parents from coming forward about some of their kids' difficulties. That might really make a whole community be under-diagnosed and, therefore, underrepresented, it seems to me.

Now that I think about it, I might know a black girl with AS, but might have had something else. She definately had something as she was in the semi-special ed thing I was in at one middle school.

If you look around on YouTube I know that there are one or two vlogs with black Aspie girls.