Autistic Joy

Aaron Shrimpton, Maddi Crease

| United Kingdom

| 00:03:44

2:00pm Saturday 1st March 2025

Autistic Joy is a micro short poetry film exploring the side of autism that often goes unspoken and under-explored: the joyful. From happy stimming to sensory delight, Autistic Joy delivers an insight into the positives within our autistic experience.

Transcript

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