After months defending his choice to cast the neurotypical actor Maddie Ziegler as the autistic character in the next film Music and keeping up with online criticism (including the people her film tries to portray), Sia seems to have changed her mind. Or, now that she has been nominated for an award, she has excessive damage control control. You decide!
Per Variety, el the singer / songwriter / director first announced that “she was listening” and will include a notice at the beginning of the Nominated for a Golden Globe film that says: “Music in no way does it tolerate or recommend the use of moderation in autistic people. There are autistic occupational therapists who specialize in sensory processing who can be consulted to explain safe ways to provide proprioceptive, deep-pressure feedback that will help collapse safety. ”Containment and confinement interventions are widely recognized as dangerous and abusive. (in 2018, a 13-year-old autistic boy he died after being retained by a staff member at his institute).
“I plan to remove the restriction scenes from all future impressions. I listened to the wrong people and this is my responsibility, it is clear that my research was not comprehensive enough, nor extensive enough “, tweeted Sia.
He also tweeted, “I’m sorry.” About an hour after this series of tweets, she deleted his Twitter. If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? If you tweet an apology and then delete your Twitter, is it a real apology? Maybe not, but at least we have blogs to catalog receipts.