Last night, the first part of openly autistic Chris Packham’s much anticipated documentary, Inside Our Autistic Minds, aired on BBC2. The documentary centred autistic voices; shining a spotlight not only on autism but on underrepresented viewpoints within the autistic community, including those of autistic children (pupils at Limpsfield Grange, a school exclusively for autistic girls), an autistic woman (Flo) and a non-speaking autistic person (Murray).
A poignant theme throughout the documentary was loneliness. Towards the start of the documentary, Flo expressed that nobody besides her husband has seen the real her, pupils at Limpsfield Grange alluded to being bullied and having few friends when they studied in mainstream schools, and Murray heartbreakingly explained that he was “alone in [his] world of deep and troubled pining for a person to hear [him]”.
Read more at: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ken-bruce-children-chris-packham-autistic-b2282801.html
