Activist and comedian, Amanda Seales is not done addressing people who have been accusing her of lying about her autism diagnosis.
As we previously reported, while Amanda Seales was on a recent episode of Club Shay Shay opened up about being on the spectrum, racism she experienced as a child and more. During the interview she spoke about how she’s been “evolving” and has been receiving “a lot of information and a lot of slander at the same time.”
Further explaining what she meant, she stated, “In the past month… it’s just been a very, like, difficult time, but there’s been really beautiful things that have come out of it. I was recently diagnosed as someone who has autism spectrum disorder, which is very difficult to identify in Black women because of racism.”
“What it typically means is that your brain functions in a different way, so you’re neurodivergent,” she continued. “And you also have certain tendencies that are considered outside of what the neurotypical way of things is. And a lot of times that can have you present in a manner that people misrepresent, which is the story of my f***** life.”
After the news was shared on social media, people began to weigh in on the conversation and accused Seales of lying because she said she wasn’t clinically diagnosed but she went on Instagram live to clarify her words.
“Shannon: But have you been clinically diagnosed? Me: Yes. There is a clinical diagnosis for Autism,” she reiterated their conversation from the interview on her IG Story. “He then hung his head and exhaled in frustration because I did not answer his question.”
“That is called deflection,” she explained of her response to him. “Why? Because I was not going to be pressured by this man who was interrogating me with absolutely zero love for me into proving something to him that L. By his line of questioning, he had already committed to undermining.
She added, “I understand my response may be confusing to some but I am clarifying it. As I did in my Live. And that is enough.”
Even after the live she hopped on her YouTube channel to explain more in death to people how expensive the testing is to get clinically diagnosed.
“It’s incredibly expensive and often it’s not even able to be had by adults the waiting lists are backed up for years and especially for black women the only studies for autism at length has really only been for young white boys I talked about this in the interview but they cut it out of the interview,” she shared.