Beatrice Leong lives and works in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a country she both loves and resists, a place that has shaped her politics, her solitude, and her fight. She is a late-diagnosed autistic woman, a documentary filmmaker, and a gender-disability activist whose work lives at the uneasy intersection of silence and speech, policy and memory. After a lifetime of psychiatric misdiagnosis — once institutionalised and coerced into electroconvulsive treatment — she now works to dismantle the very systems that once erased her. Through AIDA — the Autism Inclusiveness Direct Action Group, which she founded — she carves out space for women and girls with disabilities to not only be seen but to lead. Her lens is always tilted slightly towards justice: in narrative, in budgeting, in the way impact is measured and felt. Her work spans grassroots organizing to global policy spaces — always returning to the same question: who gets to survive, and what stories must we tell to live?