After months of defending his choice to throw the neurotypical actor Maddie Ziegler as an autistic character in the upcoming film The music And, considering online critics (including the people her film tries to portray), Sia apparently had a change of heart. Or, now that she’s been nominated for an award, she’s in control of damages. You decide!
On variety, singer / songwriter / director for the first time announced that she “listened” and will include a warning at the beginning Nominated for a Golden Globe film that reads: “The music in no case does it tolerate or recommend the use of restraints for people with autism. There are autistic occupational therapists who specialize in sensory processing, who can be consulted to explain safe ways to provide proprioceptive, deep-pressure feedback to help melt safety. “Detention and isolation interventions are widely recognized as dangerous and abusive (in 2018, a 13-year-old boy with autism deceased after being detained by a staff member from his high school).
“I plan to remove the retention scenes from all future prints. I listened to the wrong people and this is my responsibility, my research was clearly not deep enough, not wide enough “, Sia wrote on Twitter.
She also wrote on Twitter: “I’m sorry.” About an hour after this series of tweets, she deleted it on Twitter. If a tree falls in a forest and no one around hears it, does it ring? If you send an excuse on Twitter and then delete your Twitter, is it a real excuse? Maybe not, but at least we have blogs for cataloging receipts.