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Reviews exclusively for, about and by autistic, neurodiverse and disabled artists. DM or email at: reviewernd @gmail .com

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Our editor has recently had to take part in the 'nationwide claim review', with no reasonable adjustments, and with pressured scrutiny, and for what? Will The DWP Use This Article Against Me Too?
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UPDATED: Here are the 60 #autistic #neurodiverse and #disability led shows that are on at the @edfringe That's 1.78% of 3300+ shows. We feel these shows need to be championed, as well as the artists behind them, this is our mission for #Edfringe2022 ! Have we missed any?
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Our 2023 Fringe Guide is out! You can download it here: #FillYerBoots
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Reminder to all #EdFringe folk, take the pressure off. You’ll come up, do a show, some people will love it, you’ll have a blast :) job done. We are gonna review some shows and give out some awards :) lovely x
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Just to let shows at the #EdFringe know, we are out reviewing, it take us longer to get around to things as our reviewers have access needs and we don't have a 'churn as many out as possible' attitude, but we will be coming to see you and you will be reviewed :)
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UPDATE: There are now 100 #Neurodiverse #Autistic and/or #Disabled led shows on our list. Feel free to save the graphics (DM/Email for a PDF) and tag yourselves (and us) in. We will update again if we find more, or you tell us. Starting tomorrow, we'll be reviewing!
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Here are the 30 #autistic #neurodiverse and #disability led shows we found in the @edfringe 2022 guide, that's 0.89% of their 3000+ shows, we feel these (and more if you tell us) shows need to be championed, as well as the artists behind them, so this is our mission for this year
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We had an amazing First Neurodiverse Review Awards ceremony. Thank you to all who came and all the winners, guest who presented awards. We filmed it and it'll be up captioned ASAP. For now we are having the evening off!
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Announcement: We are hosting AWARDS. 7 brand-new awards for our #neurodiverse #autistic and #disabled led community at #EdFringe2022 . Open now, till midnight on the 20th, get nominating. See the thread of awards below, all info is on our website here:
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You never know who'll you'll meet at @edfringe - remember to always dress as a vagina, then Phoebe Waller-Bridge will come say hi! #MeetTheMedia @jurysouttheatre
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Tip for reviewers: If you're a non-disabled critic writing about #Autistic #neurodiverse and/or #disabled led shows, please try to avoid the words 'inspirational' and 'brave', I've seen a few already!
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We've published our 56th and final review. It's been a pleasure covering neurodiverse, autistic and disabled acts at #EdFringe2022 - We will be back in 2023. Thank you to our reviewers: @EllaZinc @TChandlered @aimee_speaks @deafciara and our editor @SimonCJay
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Update: The private award's ceremony for The 1st Neurodiverse Review Awards will be held at 3pm on Thursday 25th August, at The Spiegeltent, St. James's Centre. The winners will be announced and also published in @TheStage (awards presenters to be announced soon)
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Just booked 45 shows to see at @edfringe we have truly 'unleashed' our fringe, whatever that means ;)
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Sorry, our usual service has been disrupted. Namely due to our editor having their wallet stolen on Princes St. on the way to review shows. All reviews cancelled, all day spent on the phone to the fraud squad; getting replacement disability rail cards, disabled bus pass etc.
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If we were to go by the categories on the edfringe website, there are 16 Disabled-led shows and 11 neurodiversity-led shows - We know that's not the case as last year there were fewer categorised shows and we found/were informed of more than 175! - Do make yourselves known :)
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In the interests of transparency and to add to work that others are doing, here is a list we sent to FringeSoc covering the feedback our communities flagged during the fringe.
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The First Minister @NicolaSturgeon wrote to all the winners of our first Neurodiverse Awards, which is very kind, and I am glad she recognises the importance of Disabled and Neurodiverse led work at The Edinburgh Fringe.
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Here is our shortlist, congratulations to everyone, and thank you for our amazing longlist and all nominees. The #ActuallyAutistic Award
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Going through the @edfringe guide picking out the shows we are going to review this year! Tres overwhelming! #unleashyourfringe
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So after two days compiling the list of nd/disabled-led shows at @edfringe this year, we have a rough estimate of 175 shows, which is around the same as last year! Watch this space for the digital brochure which will be out soon :)
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For the second part of the fringe - we would like to prioritise nd/disabled led shows that have NO REVIEWS booked in and no PR, it’ll be towards the later part of the fringe :) just get in touch :)
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One thing we discovered quickly was we didn't physically have time to see all the shows we wanted. When you factor in that all our reviewers and editor are also disabled at an inaccessible festival - it's a miracle we got to as many as we did.
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Its here!
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Should we compile a list of our favourite one liners from #edfringe ?
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UPDATE: There are 175 #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiverse and/or #disabled led shows at #EdFringe2022 this is 5.12% of the shows registered. We've also added stars to shows we've reviewed. Feel free to save the graphic and tag yourselves (and us)
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BBC have reported that ticket sales at #EdFringe were down due to accommodation costs. If only people had mentioned this before... oh wait...
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We are chuffed for the ADHD Comedy Award nominees which includes @MhairiBlack @NashKnock @KavinJay
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Our nominees for our awards have been published. Our awards will be on Sunday 18th August at Midday, Just the Tonic Nucleus. Congrats on all the nominees, we made the decision based on reviews, judges, audience feedback and nd/disabled creatives :)
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We have run out of spoons, how about you? #EdFringe2022
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Think we need a Working Class Review for the #EdFringe too!
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Venues booking touring companies, please book shows by neurodiverse, autistic and disabled people, rather than shows about us made by non-disabled people!!!
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Was lovely to meet so many artists at #MeetTheMedia thanks to the @edfringe team making it run so smoothly :)
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Be cool to have a disability equivalent of the Bechdel Test, where shows are highlighted for disabled characters talking to each other about their experience rather than non disabled characters talking about us.
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Nice to see accessibility is being signposted, things are slowly getting better @edfringe
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Review: Earwig ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'Dissects and rejects the ableism of ‘trying to fix’ deaf people. What makes it a subtle work of genius, is that it is all wrapped up in a satisfying and authentic 1920’s domestic drama'
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We also have to say that not one reviewer from another media outlet spoke to us during our time at Meet The Media, yes it was busy, yes we were new, but they could've certainly picked up a few pointers on writing about disabled led work.
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A little reminder for shows at the @edfringe wanting a review. Don't worry about your audience numbers, a good reviewer would not use that as an indicator of how good the show is. Make sure the review site is geared towards your work, otherwise you set yourself up for a fall.
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Our nominees for our awards have been published. Our awards will be on Sunday 18th August at Midday, Just the Tonic Nucleus. Congrats on all the nominees, we made the decision based on reviews, judges, audience feedback and nd/disabled creatives :)
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Our Awards are back! With a brand new sponsored category. Including: - The @BOPTheatre Exceptional Theatre awards (with £500 award and mentoring) - The @UniAtypical Bounce Emerging Talent Award (Flights, Hotel, Headliner at the Fest) Plus many more
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The Neurodiversity Representation Award
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Right, we are gonna take some time compiling a list of all the shows to come and review over #EdFringe2022 we need to be mindful of not being overwhelmed, and making sure we can fit as many people in as we can.
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We find it worrying that we are already seeing our community worn out, exhausted and overwhelmed by #EdFringe22 remember the fringe is now mainly a capitalist model and thrives on your labour, you're allowed to take days off, take it easy.
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What an incredible awards ceremony. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners :) so much love, rage and brilliance in one room :)
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What Neurodiverse, Autistic and/or Disabled guests would you like to see interviewed on our new chat show?
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We do understand that it can trigger RSD a lot at the Fringe. We feel that responsibility as the only disabled/nd-led review site. But we can’t get to everything, and we have our own accessibility needs to accommodate too. So please think before messaging us.
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Review: Robin Ince - Weapons of Empathy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'Beneath the jovial Radio 4 safety of the show, Ince is quietly activistic and it’s wonderful. He also recommends books with such a fervour, he gives ‘your favourite English Teacher’ vibes.'
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So excited to announce Jade Flack @Flackster_Actor as our newest reviewer as part of the @edfringe Emerging Critic Programme :D She will be coming up to the Fringe in the last week.
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At the beginning of the month we were told we should ‘name and shame’ reviewers for ableist reviews, we wanted to give the benefit of the doubt and try and educate - but we are seriously a click away from doing TOP 10 ABLEIST REVIEWS OF THE FRINGE DM if you want to nominate
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Hey, we will be doing #TweetTheMedia tomorrow, may not reply immediately, but will respond to every tweet we are included in. Really want to have conversations about nd/disabled-led work at the fringe, and how you are getting on :D
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The demand for our new site is far more than what out few volunteers can do have, despite having worked all day every say since the fringe began. We can't do everything and what we are doing has teething problems, but we hope to have made a positive difference for this fringe.
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The awards nominations have closed. We will be contacting those who made the longlist shortly. Thanks for the 100's of nominations we had in all categories. Amazing that so many members of the public have championed so much of our work.
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The @DeafAction Award
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We've been invited to a @southbankcentre disability fest in Sept - which is exciting!
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We are getting more reports of ableist language used in reviews about disabled acts at the #EdFringe Last year the most positive reviews went to non-disabled acts creating work about disabled people :S
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Thank you for all the nominees and well-wishers that came to our third award ceremony today. It was great to come together again and celebrate the talent in our communities, wishing everyone the best for the last week of the fringe and beyond.
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We're in the process of getting ready for @edfringe 2023! We've refreshed our website, including a new application form if you'd like to write for us. Our full launch will be on Thursday 27th July; when we will publish our guide, awards process n stuff
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Closing soon! We are very excited to be supporting a disabled critic who will be able to bring a much-needed perspective to work at the Edinburgh Fringe. - Travel & Accommodation - Payment for your reviews. Applications close tomorrow at midnight!
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Shout out to one of the best journalists working at #EdFringe we'd love to have them work for us, but they're out doing great work, one of the few openly #disabled reviewers at the Fringe, I think?
@LiamODellUK
Liam O'Dell
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Hello! I’m Liam, a Deaf and disabled journalist and campaigner. Let’s chat if you’re after pieces on deafness, autism, asexuality, OCD, politics or social media. I can moderate/speak on panels, too. Email: liamodelluk @gmail .com 📸: @antw0rld |
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We are already feeling the weight of judging these awards, we hope nobody is too disappointed and that you'll see that our panels will give real consideration to all acts nominated. We won't be going away so they'll be future opportunities. Yours, an empathetic team.
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It's here!
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We want to reiterate what @lyngardner says, 3 star reviews are not bad reviews. Any reviewer worth their salt, will write something that you can pull a quote from, that will help your show, even in 2 stars. We've made a choice not to promote 2 and 1 star reviews.
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@mufseen Asexuality
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Feeling super overwhelmed today - be cool if the support was a two-way thing :D We are an all-disabled reviewing team and we are getting a lot of hectoring emails and contacts annoyed we haven’t come to shows… … and it’s like, we are not going to get to everything…
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We are gutted that our scope for awards were limited to 7, we would've liked to have had more categories, different criteria and we know some amazing acts from our communities haven't got through. Next year, with funding, we will have bigger awards.
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The longlisted nominees have been informed, 8 nominees in 7 categories. Now it's for our judges to shortlist. Night.
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The irony is that the TikTok partnership with EdFringe could've been use to make accessible material, so another idea not thought through
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Also nothing wrong in some shows being about trauma. Like, have you looked outside recently?
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The idea that @bbcstrictly has 'gone woke' is such a narrow and ableist framing of things. These spaces are just as much ours and always have been, we are part of life and society. We don't see it as 'inclusion', we see it as 'About f*cking time!'
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Had a great time watching the opening night of #DontMakeTea by @boptheatre a pitch perfect satire of the benefits system and its cruelty, coupled with a riotous second act. Intense, very funny and brilliantly done. see it at @traversetheatre its on till sat. Brilliant experience!
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Just has an email from a reviewer who co-reviews with her 10yr old autistic son, and she asked me if we knew of truly relaxed performances, because her son is routinely castigated and asked to leave theatre shows. A perfect example of what we were talking about the other day.
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Review: Breathless ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'Sensitively portrays a much misunderstood addiction, showing an audience the human behind the tabloid headlines, it is an education wrapped in brilliant theatre.'
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@BOPTheatre Emerging Talent Award
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We got to a 1000 followers woohoo!
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@FernBrady One of ours is Maggie Thatcher (and we are socialists, so it's not an adoration thing) how would that work?
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Just popping out from the bubbles in our bath to see that our winners have so far been celebrating by: - Buying Optimus Prime Lego - Doing their laundry. We love our communities!
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Review: Darren McGarvey: Trauma Industrial Complex – Trauma and Oversharing in the Age of Lived Experience ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘An informed thesis around how we have become over-saturated by bite-sized online self-help in lieu of any substantial therapy.’
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An Open Letter to all Reviewers at #edfringe 'There is really no excuse to write reviews that are ableist and have little understanding about various neurodivergent and disabled creatives. We are holding a zoom session to answer any questions.'
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Could venues try not violate The Equality Act as #EdFringe this year.
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We are going to be offering workshops for all the major publications doing reviews for @edfringe - will be contacting them over the next few weeks - in the hope that it’ll stop the tide of ableist reviews that will come down the line during august. #UnleashYourFringe
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Shows that are disabled/nd-led - aren’t inherently ‘about awful things’.
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We are now reviewing disabled led work in all mediums; TV, Film, Books, Games, Exhibitions. Let us know if you feel we need to cover something:
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@AMatterofTime5 Tell Nathan we are coming to see the show and review it, we met him at the Meet The Media and really liked the show's message. So sad to hear he's having a hard time!
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We are part of #TweetTheMedia - we are looking for disabled/nd-led shows :)
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It was noticeable
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Edinburgh Fringe ticket sales are down 25% compared to 2019 across key venues including Underbelly ( @FollowTheCow ) and @Summerhallery
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Our shortlist will be released very late tonight, past your bedtime late, so no need to constantly refresh or anything :)
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All 34 of our reviews are now on our new website; We also have interviews, and info about our awards noms too - it's been a lot of work for our small team, and @TChandlered @EllaZinc and @aimee_speaks reviews are amazing. @SimonCJay our editor helps too!
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If you're feeling overwhelmed at #MeetTheMedia you can always come to us just for a chat or to sit
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Worrying to see entitled and gatekeeping 'professionals' telling us what can and can't be at @edfringe there might be a clue in the word 'fringe', it's already priced out for many people anyway, it seems 12 years of Tory rule has emboldened producers and venues.
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We support @jenivescomedian and find it shocking @Gildedballoon aren't doing more to protect one of their acts who is being subjected to a hate crime!!!
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🚨News: The Emerging Critics Programme If you are a disabled, deaf and/or neurodivergent writer interested in being mentored, writing reviews for us and staying at the Fringe in the 3rd week of August; Apply below. (Applications close 28th June)
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We've got 8 new reviews to drop today, two interviews, three quick fire q & a's, all whilst compiling our nominee lists for our awards; AND then we'll go out and see more shows! And we'll put up our updated list of shows with star ratings! So, a busy one!
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Hello, we are back at @edfringe for a third year. Lots of people asking about the digital brochure. It'll be back, but we do ask if you can make a donation (whatever amount), to be included - put your show name/detail when donating and you're in:
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Some outlets have been consistently negative about lots of acts, shows, venues with a 'its not like the old days'... I think the entitled old men with Media Passes deciding what's good has been pretty consistent through the years, surely?
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The irony is, hosting a relaxed awards ceremony should mean the autistic organisers need to feel relaxed too... fingers crossed
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