Sunday, February 25, 2024

Just Different/ Flo: "My husband is the only person..."

Thanks to GZ for recommending I look up Chris Packham, a naturalist and BBC presenter. (Packham's website.) He's my age, but as an American, I'd never heard of him. (We in the US can't watch all the BBC for free.)
He's also autistic--with a late diagnosis (in his forties)--and in 2023 made a BBC documentary, Inside Our Autistic Minds.

Chris Packham, below, with a European badger (so much sweeter looking than the American badger, which is the animal of my home state, Wisconsin):


Packham is a photographer and also designs T-shirts, including a Just Different line to celebrate neurodivergence:
"We are not wrong, we are not broken, we are just different."

Here are a couple of his Just Different designs:
I kind of want this one: "I think it's this [reverse direction] way up";
"I can see you without looking at you" (referring to the averted gaze of many autistic people):


Searching for the doc on autism in the US, I get the message: "This title is currently not available on any service", so I've only watched a few clips on utube so far.
Here's a 5-minute clip, featuring autistic stand-up comedian, Flo, who says her husband is the only person who's seen her unmasked:


Oh! Here, I can watch the whole thing on this doc channel. 
Eek--no! I had to erase that live link --it works on my laptop, but on my iPhone, it led to a porn site. 

If you want to search, I watched  the excellent Inside Our Autistic Minds  on my laptop at “i have no tv” documentary site. 

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