I wonder how many autistic children go undiagnosed because their parents are undiagnosed autistics who don’t see anything atypical or out of the ordinary about their child and think everyone experiences what they do but just muddles through?
In 1807, Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar, was stolen from Senegal & sold into slavery in America. He left behind an autobiography written in Arabic.
To mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition, a thread on the remarkable story of Omar…