Dear Sia, I will admit, when I first saw the trailer for your new movie “Music,” I was taken aback. I thought you just must have not known any better.
Surely you had good intentions, right? But those hopes were quickly dashed. The trailer showed a neurotypical actress playing a non-speaking autistic girl, trying to mimic stereotypical stims and movements in a spectacle that was tough to watch.
Many autistic people like myself thought you just needed some guidance, maybe some kind criticism to show you that these representations can be inaccurate and even harmful, but you didn’t listen.
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