I've written about my autism on Letterboxd multiple times. It's a fundamental part of my identity and how I see things. Yet, despite often unleashing my soul through writing here or on other outlets, how I present myself here and through my day-to-day life is different. I've always felt that there are two versions of me—one that's autistic and one that's, for lack of a better term, normal.

I was educated in mainstream schools all my life, and through that,…

George Miller had an interesting problem when working on his follow-up to Fury Road. How do you follow up a film that many call the peak of its genre? There's an inevitable high expectation that comes with follow-ups, but there is also a potentially dangerous safety net that refuses any true originality. Fury Road is a singular piece of filmmaking, and any attempt to follow it directly will be tricky, so what does George Miller do?

Well, he goes in…

I am autistic. I was diagnosed around the age of 4 after months & months of schools & nurseries telling my parents I was a problematic child. When I went into nursery it was a new environment where I felt alone, abandoned. Everything felt so tall and oppressive and yet I was small, a speck that felt everything closing in around me. I cried, tore things apart and was out of control but the truth was I didn't mean to be. My…