BE WHO YOU ARE BECAUSE OF WHO YOU ARE NOT DESPITE

Views of being an autistic, African-American woman

Rotary Disabilities Advisers Group

This is the first in a Disability Awareness Series produced by the Rotary Disabilities Advisors. Each segment will feature a different person in the group discussing disabilities matters. In this first video Victoria Handy, Mississippi discusses the Autistic African-American Experience from a woman's perspective. She has a B.A. in Psychology and is an honor student working toward her Masters. Both she and her daughter have been diagnosed with Autism

As she says in this video "Be whomever you are because of who you are not despite."

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