“…While there have been pockets of intersectional thinking in both the autism and autistic community 1 (Baggs, 2016;Barnett, 2017;de Hooge, 2019;Giwa Onaiwu, 2020;Hannon, 2017;Mallipeddi & Van-Daalen, 2021;Mandell et al, 2007;Moore et al, 2022;O'Dell et al, 2016) with particular attention given to issues of representation of autistic people with co-occurring disabilities (e.g., Baggs, 2010;Chapman & Veit, 2020), the majority of the work in both communities has suffered from a lack of engagement with intersectional issues. Collectively, we are only beginning to grapple with the degree to which intersectionality has been neglected in autism practice, research, and activism (e.g., ASAN, 2021;Cascio et al, 2021;Jones et al, 2020). To date, the narratives and rhetoric surrounding autism and autistic people have been intertwined with a pervasive and persisting whiteness, cis-gender, middle-class, straight, maleness (de Hooge, 2019;Giwa Onaiwu, 2020;Wright, 2021).…”