I was able to get an early draft for the season finale episode of A Kind of Spark:
"We won't have to deal with the Witch Hunter anymore."
"How come?"
[The Witch Hunter, as a newt]: "This witch turned me into a newt!"
[A general:] "This sketch has gotten too silly. Stop the sketch! Stop it!"
OMG! This scene where Mom accidentally sets off the smoke alarm while baking and the sisters automatically rush to help each other put their ANC headphones on! 💗
#Streaming #AKindOfSpark #ActuallyAutistic
We're always delighted to have a return visit from the fabbity-fab Elle McNicoll! Our childrens books wizard, Fiona, loved Keedie (a prequel to A Kind of Spark) - out now from Knights Of - signed copies on the shelves! #Edinburgh set and again with neurodiverse characters
#books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #ElleMcNicoll #Keedie #AKindOfSpark #neurodiverse #author #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon
If you enjoyed #EverythingsGonnaBeOkay, I highly recommend #AKindofSpark. It's streaming for free on #BYUtv, and is everything my history-loving self would've adored as a kid (& love equally now as an adult). Thanks for the interview, Caitlin Hamilton, Georgia De Gidlow & Lola Blue! https://comicon.com/2023/04/21/talking-to-the-cast-of-a-kind-of-spark/
@booksandchokers
The recording of Friday's conversation with author Elle McNicoll is now online. She chatted with @ferrous for about an hour about neurodiversity, representation and the power of stories, among other things. Enjoy!
#AKindOfSpark #ActuallyAutistic #RepresentationMatters #ownVoices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WNcbeVXCDE
@VeryLateDiag
Have you seen that #AKindOfSpark is now on TV? Many of the cast and crew members are autistic, and they've done an amazing job in adapting it. It's on CBBC and the iPlayer. Here's a taster:
https://youtu.be/1-zTNFdac8Y
My #autistic daughter and I are so enjoying watching #AKindOfSpark. A beautiful story, with many #neurodivergent cast and crew members. It's on #CBBC and the #iPlayer, and also in the US and Canada.
“I said to the BBC, it has to be autistic-led. There’s this expression: ‘#Diversity is being invited to be party, #inclusivity is being asked to dance’. But what if we threw the party? What if it was our party?” Elle McNicoll.
Binged #akindofspark on BBC. A wonderful novel turned into a great miniseries. Bravo to the creative individuals involved with several neurodivergent actors playing neurodivergent characters. Representation matters. #autism #ElleMcNicoll #neurodiversity #ya
I feel quite spoiled for #autistic content and characters at the moment:
- I started watching #ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo and I am LOVING it
- I found #ElleMcnicoll's brilliant #AKindOfSpark in the #library, and devoured it whole - the first #fiction #book
I've finished in years
- I (belatedly) read #HannahGadsby's article about her late-diagnosis #autism (whole sections of which I could apply to my own life with barely a word changed)
- I (very belatedly - only 10 years late) binge-watched #SomeGirls on #BBCIplayer and am already missing the characters - especially #ND Saz
Well done, world - keep it up!
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/mar/19/hannah-gadsby-autism-diagnosis-little-out-of-whack
Sitting in this #pub, feeling a bit delicate cos I've just started #AKindOfSpark by #ElleMcNicoll (which is about an #autistic kid). It's wazzing down, in a bleak #UK #Winter sort of way. I don't want to live in this stupid country anymore. I am not happy.
And then the wurlitzer plays one of my favourite happy songs. #DanceTheNightAway by #TheMavericks. (I know: they're not cool; I don't care.)
@ArgyleSoda At the #AutisticBookClub we read one book a month, and the books are chosen from bestsellers, prize winners and books by #AutisticAuthors
We’ve just read #AKindOfSpark by Elle McNicoll
Currently reading #UnmaskingAutism by Dr Devon Price
2023 books:
#ProjectHailMary by Andy Weir
#TheReasonIJump by Naoki Higashida
#TheSweetnessOfWater by Nathan Harris
#LettersToMyWeirdSisters by Joanne Limburg
All details on #Meetup ! 🌈♾
@peppernut @ferrous @actuallyautistic
Just read ‘A Kind Of Spark’ by Elle McNicoll and everyone at the #BookClub loved it. I had no idea what it was like, I think it’s seriously underrated.
Someone at the group was going to buy lots of copies to give away to their friends, as a primer on #Autism and how we experience the world, it’s that good!
#AutisticAuthors #AKindOfSpark #ListenToUs
@Lilly_Jade_ Everyone kept mentioning it, and tbh I didn’t want to read it, but I’m glad I did because it’s so powerful, I have been so surprised.
It is a great book, I now understand why so many people recommended it to me.
I’m always on the lookout for books that I can recommend to those who know nothing about #Autism and this is one of them. I hope you like it! (thank-you #BookClub members for persuading me to read it!)
#akindofspark
#读书笔记
主角是一个患有自闭症的11岁小女孩Addie，作者用的词句好简单但写得很有带入感，我才读了几页就完全体会到她的心情。写到她姐姐Keedie回家Addie冲上去拥抱她，姐姐回应她说“Hello，my favorite person”😭😭
MY HEART JUST MELTED😭😭
