Disability, model minority myth, and white supremacy: Struggling, reimagining, and becoming through mother–daughter counter storytelling

We – as daughter and mother – offer our stories humbly as a love letter to our Asian American community, our Black and Brown siblings, and the broader education community. White supremacy has weaponized the model minority myth – the belief that Asian Americans have "made it" despite obstacles – to invalidate claims of systemic racism and ableism. We draw on Disability Critical Race Theory and Asian American Critical Race Theory to center intersectionality and the interwoven nature of racialization, gendering, and disablement. Using collaborative storying, we showcase our (un)learning and (re)learning about normativity, identities, and belonging with and from each other as dialogic and reciprocal. Although both of our voices contribute to this dialogic storytelling, this paper centers on the stories of the first author – as a neurodiverse 15-year-old youth – as there is much we can learn from listening to our disabled youth of color and their resistance practices.