Autistic While Black

Three horizontal copies of a Black-and-white photo of Diane J. Wright, a Black woman with hair off her face, wearing noise-canceling headphones and looking steadily at the viewer. She is outlined by a thick pink border on the left and yellow on the right.

Centering Black Autistic Stories, Struggles, and Joy: Autastic’s Diane J. Wright

August 17, 2025 • By Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Diane J. Wright is the founder of Autastic.com—a resource and community hub for thousands of autistic adults, including spaces specifically for autistic people of color. She talked with us about her advocacy, including shaping the stories of autistic PoC as told in popular media.

A Review of All the Noise at Once: Being Young, Autistic, and Black

February 21, 2025 • By Meg Eden Kuyatt

All the Noise at Once tackles so many issues with such care and thought, including racism, classism, and class segregation, the stress of excellence and being a “model citizen,” family expectations, ableism and neurodivergent treatment in a neurotypical world, police brutality, and power imbalances.