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by | April 13, 2023 · 4:42 pm

Work It Out: A Mood-Boosting Exercise Guide For People Who Just Want To Lie Down Is Now Available Worldwide

Sarah’s second book Work It Out: A Mood-Boosting Exercise Guide for People Who Just Want to Lie Down is now available worldwide via Quirk Books.

Not so much a self-help book as a self-acceptance one, Work It Out meets you where you’re at to help use exercise as a way to improve mental health. If you’re depressed, anxious, burned out, or struggling, it may feel impossible to get started, get serious, or even get up. This book provides clear, actionable, non-judgemental advice on how to navigate that.

A list of places the book can be purchased can be found here.

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by | July 30, 2021 · 2:29 pm

Atypical Ends With A History Of Uneven Representation

Atypical

The fourth and final season of Netflix’s Atypical presented a valuable opportunity to assess both how far we’ve progressed when it comes to autistic representation in pop culture, and how far we still have to go.

Sarah wrote about why in an essay for TIME Magazine.

To read the piece go here.

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by | February 27, 2021 · 1:31 pm

Sia Faces The Music For TIME

Sia’s Music

International pop star Sia made a movie called Music that was, in theory, about autistic representation.

When Sarah reviewed the film for TIME her chief concerns where that the film could potentially be “patronizing, exploitive and genuinely harmful.” What she found out was that, in addition to arguably being many of those things, it was also simply bad art.

To read Sarah’s review go here.

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by | November 27, 2020 · 9:38 pm

The Promise And Pitfalls Of ‘Love On The Spectrum’ For TIME

Pop culture has been particularly uneven when it comes to fair and credible autistic representation.

So it was with a healthy dose of cautious concern that Sarah was tasked with reviewing the new Netflix dating series Love On The Spectrum, featuring autistic people navigating dating, sex, romance and relationships.

The verdict? The autistic representation on Love On The Spectrum is probably better than most previous examples in television and film. But don’t treat that as a ringing endorsement. It’s a low bar to leap.

To read the review head over to TIME by going here.

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by | November 26, 2020 · 11:08 am

The Danger in Alek Minassian’s Autism Defence For Flare

Mass murderer Alek Minassian is currently on trial in Toronto for a van attack he conducted in 2018 that killed 10 people and injured 16. He’s facing 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder.

Meanwhile, his defense is arguing he should not be found not criminally responsible owing to the fact he’s autistic. It’s a defense that’s dangerous, short-sighted and could have tremendous negative impacts on the autistic community. Sarah wrote about the reasons why in a piece for Flare.

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