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44. S4, Ep1: Holly Smale: Synaesthesia, hyperlexia and accidentally writing an autistic book-child
The Squarepeg Podcast
The Importance of History in Autistic Studies
There are certain cultures around the world that seem to me to connect more to my autistic brain than, for instance, now and here in England. I think similarly in terms of periods of history, I was very drawn to things like Jane Austen because there's a kind of distance and a rules and a non-touching, slow pace that works for me as an autistic person. So yeah, you almost become more fictional than the people that are on the TV because you're basing your studies of humans on people that don't really exist a lot of the time. Although the one character I did identify with this teenager on Tally, I've not thought about whether or not she other
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