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Kayla Smith is a young autistic disabilityrights advocate. She started to get involved in disability activism in November 2017. Kayla do autism awareness events at her community college to educate about autism. She hopes students, faculty and staff to look autism in the positive way instead of negative. Kayla Smith is the creator of #AutisticBlackPride. The hashtag is about celebrate and embrace black and autistic pride at the same time and give awareness about lack of representation of Autistic POC( People of Color).

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What Autistic Pride Means to Me

2019-06-18
By: kaylasmith22
On: June 18, 2019
In: Acceptance, Autism, Identity, Justice, Masking
With: 0 Comments

Today is Autistic Pride Day.  It is a day to celebrate and embrace who you are as an autistic person and to be yourself without someone making sure you are acting neurotypical enough to pass as normal.  For today,

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