World Autism Awareness Day - Rooting in Love and Action

We matter - our children and families, our lived experiences; far too often, autism is seen through a limited prism. As Stephen Shore famously said, “If you’ve met one individual with autism, you’ve met one individual with autism.”

On this World Autism Awareness Day, I want to uplift a poem inspired by our Nai, and the many ways she continually opens us to deepen our embodiment of love, compassion, empathy, advocacy / activism and collective care. It is entitled “Wounds Become Wings,” because despite living in a world which refuses to fully see and celebrate neurodivergent people, our children, loved ones, and friends are soaring on their own terms; they also remind us that the wound, as Rumi once said, is where the light enters.

Check out the poem below, and the full article, Mothering at the Intersection of Blackness and Neurodiversity (published in Spoken Black Girl Magazine, page 104) here.