Taskmaster's Fern Brady reflects on importance of 'happy, positive' representation of autism on the show

"But when I was lurking on the TM [Taskmaster] subreddit before this series went out, it was pretty apparent how many autistic people watched the show.

"I realised that by being my unmasked self while having fun I’d reach them way better than by doing some serious on-the-nose documentary about how shit my life had been when I was undiagnosed ," she continued. “I'd noticed that, no matter how much weight I lost or nice clothes I wore on TV, I could still spot my autism and failed attempts to mask it onscreen. Even when people don’t know what autism 'looks' like, their lizard brains recognise something different about us and they use that as an excuse to exclude us.was being yourself but if you're autistic you're so frequently punished for being yourself that it was a scary move.

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