the Golden Globe nominations for Sia‘s film Music has reached over 65,000 signatures.The change.org petition calls the film “severely ableist” and says it “contributes to harmful stereotypes of autistic people”.Nina Skov Jensen and Rosanna Katajia, who describe themselves as “autistic” and “autism ally” respectively, started the petition together.They wrote in the official description: “Sia has claimed the movie is a ‘love letter to the autism community’, however, the music segments are filled with strobing lights, colours, loud sounds, and quick camera movements, which is very overstimulating.“About 1 in 4 autistic people have epilepsy, so the movie can cause seizures and is also very uncomfortable for those without it.
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