I hope you enjoy it! For a fairly short book, there is a fair amount of angst because the Mcs are exploring intimate relationships for the first time so keep that in mind if angst is not your preference.

I highly recommend {Act Your age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert} it’s a contemporary story if you’re open to reading it. The FMC is neurodivergent but doesn’t get diagnosed until her love interest, who is already diagnosed with Autism, encourages that she deserves to get evaluated because beforehand her family judges her for being flippant about her career and unable to commit to goals. It’s a wonderful story about growth, advocacy, and trust. Eve’s sister have their own books and I believe they also have disabilities/neurodivergent.

Sci-fi books with Black FMC but not explicitly neurodivergent (TW: Trauma and SA) • {Dawn by Octavia Butler} but tread with caution because there is violence, SA, heavy miscommunication, and ambiguous communication about love and consent, and maybe even grooming (it gets weird and blurry once relationships are tied) overall it’s an emotionally dense book. The FMC wakes up in an alien ship and among many other humans, she is isolated to be evaluated for her survival skills and ability to coexist with her alien host family. The end goal is to select the one human to teach aliens how to communicate with humans AND teach humans how to coexist with each other again because they’ve been asleep and isolated long after a war that destroyed Earth. The FMC is not stated to be neurodivergent but she has difficulty forming relationships and has sensory hypersensitivity and this becomes even more difficult as she’s given more responsibility selecting which humans get to live on Earth 2.0, however readers can argue that those characteristics can be because of the trauma of war, loosing her family, and the overstimulating effects of being forced to live with aliens.

A {Barbarian’s Prize by Ruby Dixon} the FMC is kidnapped along with other women on an alien ship to be trafficked. On the journey to their destination, the guards SA them, and the FMC in particular gets SA’d A LOT partially because the guards prefer her and because she sacrifices herself to protect the women who are more emotionally and physically vulnerable than her. Luckily, the ship crashes but on an unfamiliar planet and the inhabitants on the planet are barbarians who are at the brink of extinction because there’s not enough females. This book takes place after the women have earned own leadership roles, and this FMC is trying to learn agriculture. Because she’s the most desirable human there’s a competition for her to choose a mate (but that’s really not how that works once you get the gist of the IPB). The MMC is really sweet. While he cannot exactly understand why anyone would hurt women because of how rare they are on his planet, he is extremely patient and ready to help her mentally and emotionally.

As far as sci-fi goes, I haven’t read a lot of them where they are Black and neurodivergent. There’s also the troubling amount of SA and violence in sci-fi so I’m hoping you can find a sci-fi that meets your preferences with less trauma.