We advocate for the inherent right of Indigenous African American Natives, as the understanders and articulators of our own experiences, including our unique linguistic expressions and cultural practices shaped by the resilience after the transatlantic slave trade, to define these realities within the framework of our own ancestral knowledge and lived history. This self-definition is crucial to resist the imposition of external, often pathologizing, medical and cultural labels that fail to recognize the validity and richness of our distinct heritage, forged through survival and adaptation.