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Niamh Callaghan, 26, has defended her behaviour towards Ben Espenson, 28, on the grounds that she was “doing a bit”.

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Help fund our evil schemes! We’re crowdfunding for props and costumes for the next episode of the sketch show! If you enjoyed the last one and want to see an autistic Mr. Darcy in a cheap Halloween costume, why not chuck a few coins into our Ko-Fi?

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Remaining in position, Maw tried to scuttle across the floor to reassure everybody that she was fine – but this only caused her classmates to run, screaming, from the crab woman.

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Remaining in position, Maw tried to scuttle across the floor to reassure everybody that she was fine – but this only caused her classmates to run, screaming, from the crab woman.

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Rescue worker Graeme Hart, 32, said: “He was looking a little thin, but otherwise he seemed in weirdly good spirits for someone who’d been isolated from society with seemingly no hope of return.”

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“It’s been a challenge - in that I had to stop communicating entirely. But at least people have stopped interpreting a simple statement of fact as a come on.” www.patreon.com/posts/122110...

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Rescue worker Graeme Hart, 32, said: “He was looking a little thin, but otherwise he seemed in weirdly good spirits for someone who’d been isolated from society with seemingly no hope of return.”

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“It’s been a challenge - in that I had to stop communicating entirely. But at least people have stopped interpreting a simple statement of fact as a come on.” www.patreon.com/posts/122110...

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Her most perverse fantasies include having a roof over her head, not becoming another unemployment statistic and surviving long enough to claim a pension that will allow her to die with a shred of dignity.

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Her most perverse fantasies include having a roof over her head, not becoming another unemployment statistic and surviving long enough to claim a pension that will allow her to die with a shred of dignity.

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Karen Hoyland, 42, doesn’t want to pry into your “condition” but also very much does want to pry – and if she can make you feel like a dangerous weirdo in the process, that’s just a bonus.

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Karen Hoyland, 42, doesn’t want to pry into your “condition” but also very much does want to pry – and if she can make you feel like a dangerous weirdo in the process, that’s just a bonus.

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“I feel like the world wasn’t designed for me,” Wilkes continued. “Trouble is, I don’t know if it’s because I vehemently dislike sudden and unpredictable change, or if it’s because I feel viscerally repulsed the thought of Timothée Chalamet without clothes on.”

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“Every time I thought the chat appeared to be reaching a natural conclusion, she found a new topic to throw everything into chaos again. By the end of it I was physically sweating. Why does she need to know how my mum is? She’s never even met my mum.”

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“I feel like the world wasn’t designed for me,” Wilkes continued. “Trouble is, I don’t know if it’s because I vehemently dislike sudden and unpredictable change, or if it’s because I feel viscerally repulsed the thought of Timothée Chalamet without clothes on.”

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“I didn’t react at first, as I thought the creature was trying to suck the autism out of him. And I’d have loved to have seen him in one of those North Face puffer jackets.”

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“I was briefly excited when I saw an ad for an autism-friendly performance of The Lion King, but that excitement quickly turned to disappointment when I realised I couldn’t bring my emotional support anxieties.” www.patreon.com/posts/108054...

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“I didn’t react at first, as I thought the creature was trying to suck the autism out of him. And I’d have loved to have seen him in one of those North Face puffer jackets.”

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“Despite my highly eventful 30 years on this planet so far, I’ve resisted calls to detail my years from birth to the crisp I just ate off the floor five seconds ago. At least, I think it was a crisp.”

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Help fund our evil schemes! We’re crowdfunding for props and costumes for the next episode of the sketch show! If you enjoyed the last one and want to see an autistic Mr. Darcy in a cheap Halloween costume, why not chuck a few coins into our Ko-Fi?

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Some asshole at The Daily Tism took the piss out of my memoir 😭

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“Despite my highly eventful 30 years on this planet so far, I’ve resisted calls to detail my years from birth to the crisp I just ate off the floor five seconds ago. At least, I think it was a crisp.”

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“I constantly feel like a squirrel trying to get into a particularly pesky nut,” Wilkes told us. “Let me in, let me in!”

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“She said she was worried about showing us the real Emma,” her line manager Paula Mulberry, 53, told us. “We said, we LIKE the real Emma. Which in hindsight was a horrible mistake.”

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“I constantly feel like a squirrel trying to get into a particularly pesky nut,” Wilkes told us. “Let me in, let me in!”

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This is in 25 minutes! Be there or be neurotypical

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Emma Bernard, 29, told reporters that she has always had this “problem” but the harder she “tries” to inject genuine enthusiasm into her “voice”, the more she sounds like she’s about to end each sentence with a Borat-style “NOT!”

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Emma Bernard, 29, told reporters that she has always had this “problem” but the harder she “tries” to inject genuine enthusiasm into her “voice”, the more she sounds like she’s about to end each sentence with a Borat-style “NOT!”

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Calling all hags, harpies, trickster gods, ne'er-do-wells, goblins, beasts and bog witches: join us for tomorrow's live recording of Autistic Women Oversharing at 6pm GMT! (That's my way of saying "if you're as terrible as we are, come along, you'll love this")

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“I really thought we had it in the bag, so I had a little lie down. By the time I woke up, he’d won Pennsylvania.”

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“Siobhan left me because I’d apparently made ‘no effort’, unlike her friend Becky’s boyfriend, who had a bunch of helium-filled foil delivered to her place of work.” www.patreon.com/posts/122330...

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This is tomorrow night! Be there and hear all the atrocious things that won’t make the edit!

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This is tomorrow night! Be there and hear all the atrocious things that won’t make the edit!

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The anonymous workplace, a London-based recruitment company, reportedly welcomes neurodivergent employees - in much the same way Jim Jones welcomed newcomers to Jonestown. www.patreon.com/posts/121480...

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“Siobhan left me because I’d apparently made ‘no effort’, unlike her friend Becky’s boyfriend, who had a bunch of helium-filled foil delivered to her place of work.” www.patreon.com/posts/122330...

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“I really thought we had it in the bag, so I had a little lie down. By the time I woke up, he’d won Pennsylvania.”

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“Last night a woman winked at me, stroked my cheek and whispered she’d had a really lovely night,” Thomas continued. “Which could only be part of some elaborate prank, right? How else would you explain it?”

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“It’s either that or a ‘to the most wonderful partner in the world’. Which seems a bit of a stretch. I’ve only known the man eight months. And I don’t like the way he holds a fork.”

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The anonymous workplace, a London-based recruitment company, reportedly welcomes neurodivergent employees - in much the same way Jim Jones welcomed newcomers to Jonestown. www.patreon.com/posts/121480...

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So excited about this - it’s basically The Daily Tism writers room deep diving into different autistic experiences. This one is the early signs we were autistic that should have been a dead giveaway. We’ve started production already & it’s a hoot - you don’t want to miss this.

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“I used to recommend bleach enemas, but for some reason I found it was a lot easier to sell people on what comes out of their child’s arse than what goes up it. I mean, I’m just raising awareness.”

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“It’s either that or a ‘to the most wonderful partner in the world’. Which seems a bit of a stretch. I’ve only known the man eight months. And I don’t like the way he holds a fork.”

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And in case you missed it, The Daily Tism are doing a podcast - it's co-founders Sara and Elsa, plus me - and we overshare. We overshare big time. I genuinely think I may never work again once these episodes are out.

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Someone asked me if The Daily Tism was highbrow humour and I genuinely didn't know how to answer so I wrote this to make myself feel like an intellectual

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Paula Mulberry, 65, who was visiting the gallery, said: “He was the very picture of deep thought and introspection. His form conveyed the private conflict of a man lost to his inner world, possibly never to return.”

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Sarah Harrow, 37, who only leaves home to go to the GP or take out the recycling, has built her entire brand around being a tortured but beloved artist who occasionally graces the public with rare bin-based sightings.

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“It’s you, seven people who don’t care if you live or die and laser tag! What could go wrong?” www.patreon.com/posts/121480...

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