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Please hear me out!
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I know I am not the first one who talks about this. But this is important to me. I am not over this.

#SiaMusic I know, I know. You've heard it. It's bad blablabla.
If it was just a bad movie and the whole stereotype thing once again is renewed in peoples
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minds that would be annoying yes, but I wouldn't be scared. Jet I am.
If one of my once favourite singers would have made a film that is horribly researched and insulting to autistics I would have been hurt and that's about it. I would wish no one would see it - who can blame
(3) me, honestly. I have to face a tone of stereotypes without someone bringing a whole "Autism Stereotypes, renewed" movie onto streaming platforms. But it's the scenes of restraint that make me feel scared. It's the fact that a person that the movie tells us knows what he's
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#LISTEN, a short film made by and with nonspeaking autistic people, was launched on Friday to coincide with the US launch of #SiaMusic. (Sia did NOT fulfil her offer to sponsor a short film.) To date, LISTEN has had more than 31,000 views on YouTube.
For a background to the film, visit this page, where you'll also find a downloadable #LISTEN toolkit for training via discussion groups and watch parties. The toolkit addresses a variety of topics relevant to understanding nonspeaking autists.

communicationfirst.org/listen/
#LISTEN is NOT a detailed critique of #SiaMusic. It addresses general principles, and was created to help future authors, filmmakers and playwrights avoid the traps that Sia and her team fell into over the years of making MUSIC.
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