This tweet alone contradicts itSELF. That's a new feat.

You REHEARSED with an autistic girl - meaning it was written and moving into production. But when that didn't work, you chose to WRITE IT for Maddie. Was it... not... written yet? To be able to rehearse?
Her own subconscious lied on her.

She'd been telling people sporadically for 5yrs she'd been writing a movie for Maddie...even teaching all Stevie's "tics and movements and vocalizations" herSELF.

But last wk it was always "they suggested I use Maddie" "I chose to cast Maddie".
But now she's likely been reading/hearing all the many, many times she said she wrote this for Mads, and her subconscious just snuck that one in there for us.

Btw, Maddie also objected to this role "during rehearsal". Is that when you brought this autistic girl in?
And bc you made 0 effort to make the production accessible to an #ActuallyAutistic actress, when she felt it was too much for her, you were like "ah welp too bad, we tried. so anyway Maddie, all on you, tight ship!"

Bc piecing together the 6 diff stories you told now, it fits.
Have you considered it was your moral obligation, when telling #ActuallyAustistic stories, to make the set and production as accessible and welcoming to the disabled person you'd cast for the part?

That it was literally your JOB to make it NOT too overwhelming for them?
Orrrr..... did you fail to realize that would NEVER be possible bc the story you chose to tell is wholly unrealistic to 99% of autistics?

That it relies on putting them in absurdly overstimuating, loud, chaotic and vocal environments to really SELL the breakthrough?

Thought so.

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28 Nov
I got several tweets since my original Sia thread, calling me a hater, someone who doesn't know her or her story, or just needs to know her heart like fans do.

Kiddies. Loves. Gen Z. I was a huge fan since Colour the Small One (2004) but also owned Healing is Difficult (2001).
Her story through trauma, addiction and self-destruction spoke to me as a teenager. I shared her music w/ loved ones who complained they couldn't understand her but I NEEDED them to get me.

I sent her song Alive to tell my therapist I survived something we thought I never could.
So when I say I was CRUSHED, and I mean devastated, to see someone whose art carried me through 15+ yrs of my life, disrespect, exploit, belittle and profit off the autistic experience?

To see her spit venom at disabled friends, use ableist terms, and refuse to listen? I broke.
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26 Nov
Hey, my lovely writers.

I'm so glad my Sia thread really helped condense a lot of info for you and connect dots you hadn't!

But when you write an article, delineating all her inconsistencies, in order, include references to exact written interviews I found, and even
bullet points I listed out as notes to consider but didn't have time for, it starts to just feel like plagiarism, not reporting.

We've ALL had screenshots of our tweets thrown into articles while many just add words around our Good Thoughts™️. But when you don't even do that?
Make it look like you did all the investigative work, found all these nuggets and drew important conclusions often missed in other articles? Mmm.. that feels.. exploitative? Of another disabled person?

No mention, hidden link, screenshot, nada? But do link/add names to OTHERS?
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24 Nov
You ever have a moment where it sinks in that Joe Biden is the President? President. Of the United States. Not a temp, not some exceptional circumstance where he's just there til Trump comes back.

He's really the 46th President. For 4 years. And Trump is done. It's.. it's over.
Has it started to hit you that this...fever dream, the daily trauma and years of unspeakable horrors and disbelief is really and truly...ending??

Imagine a clear, sensible, thoughtful, respectful, and kinda...casual(?) leader. Someone you'll even forget about for wks at a time.
I forgot it could even be like that. We now have a leader that the world can see and we get to experience leading us as the office of the President is supposed to.

That will still be errant, w/ PLENTY of calls we strongly oppose, but are..normal..political objections and upset.
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21 Nov
ICYMI: Maddie wasn't comfortable with this from the jump. She cried on set, so upset. Sia convinced her it was good and right and she'd never let people question Maddie.
Oh! Also. I didn't include this in the orig thread bc I'm exhausted and fried, but if you have the stamina to watch the full interview, Sia also discusses training Maddie 'like a dancer' to mimic Stevie's "tics and movements" exactly.

To study our physicality w/ 100% accuracy.
The way she describes it is honestly a really disgusting way to treat a "friend", to pick HIM apart and mould Maddie into him. And then call it "perfect".

"Stevie" btw is her "friend she met in AA whose mom did ASL interpreting". This love letter film was to HER. Not us.
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21 Nov
Just some of the manyyyyy inconsistencies in Sia's abysmal story.

*was researching for 3 YEARS*
*somehow never knew Autism $peaks is a hate group*
*turns out she DID know they were horrid awhile ago*

But also, A$ didn't come on-board for 4yrs after the 3yr research began? Wut?
*claims she tried a FEW autistic actors, but some phantom overhead suggested she use Maddie*

*jk they tried one non-verbal autistic girl, she didn't cope well, so Sia herself picked Maddie*
....or was it her autistic friend who found the shoot to be too stressful and overwhelming? The world may never know.
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21 Nov
Update.

I tried to make jokes last night but this isn't funny now.

I actually did email my landlord last night - something I've never done in the 7yrs I've lived here - and she was great about it.

But it's possible we have some retaliation and I'm sooo sick now.
Bc it was addressed I reopened my window (on this 70° day). Cigarette smoke flooded my apt soon after. This has happened before from ALL my neighbors. But this was different somehow.

I got suffocated quickly and so nauseous I thought I would puke. It got trapped and Im so sick[
But I mention retaliation bc she was notably "slammy" earlier tidy in the day, then hung every picture left, vacuumed, etc.

But when the bf came, let a HUGE dog race through a the apt, ransacked the entire floor, and made more noise than moving day. Doesnt feel coincidental now
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