Spotlight: An Autistic Filmmaker’s Perspective

As the United Kingdom began to return to something resembling normality, young people with Autism and SEN had, and continue, to get to grips with engaging with their peers, co-workers, and strangers once more.

Spencer Cotterell is autistic, a young filmmaker, and a graduate of the University of East London. He decided to tackle this topic head-on by producing a short animation that represented this experience of interacting socially after having spent such a long stretch of time in relative isolation. Collaborating with the National Autistic Society, the animation depicts some of the struggles that re-integration this can entail in particular for young people with Autism and SEN.

While not widely viewed on YouTube, it has found much resonance among multiple charitable and advice-giving Facebook pages, and is of key interest to anyone seeking to understand this subject further.

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