There’s a study going around this week that autism parents don’t need to be told twice: a recent review of mental health and neurodivergence content across social media found that misinformation is everywhere right now, and most people can’t tell the difference.
I want you to sit with that for a second, because I think it names something a lot of us have felt and couldn’t say out loud. You read a post. It contradicts what you’ve watched your own child do for years. And for one second — just one — you wonder if you’re the one who’s wrong about your own kid.
You’re not.
Here’s the question I want you to actually answer today, not just nod at: when was the last time you trusted what you saw with your own eyes over what a stranger online told you to believe?
That instinct — the one that knows your child before any algorithm does — isn’t new. It’s ancestral. Long before there were studies or comment sections, mothers were the record-keepers. We watched. We remembered. We knew what was true because we paid attention, not because someone gave us permission to know it.
That’s the whole idea behind Sacred Recall, which we launched this Juneteenth — wearable reminders of what you already know to be true, for the days the noise gets loud.
Shop Sacred Recall → alanijacobfoundation.org/sacred-recall
If this confirmed something you’ve been carrying quietly — good. That was the point.
The Alani Jacob Foundation is the public-facing initiative founded by Salima Levy, dedicated to ancestral memory, disability advocacy, and community transformation. Learn more at alanijacobfoundation.org.