Guest on Rob Cesternino’s podcast, Is she confessed for the first time that she was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and that she felt a sense of liberation related to understanding herself. “For 45 years I have felt as if I had to wear a human costume, a mask. Only in the last two years have I become fully myself,” said the Australian singer.
The confession At the “Rob has a podcast” Sia also explained: “No one can know or love you when you are full of secrets and living in shame. Only when we finally sit down in a room full of strangers and tell them our deepest, darkest and shameful, and everyone laughs with us, and we don’t feel like pieces of trash for the first time in our lives, we feel like we’re seen for the first time in our lives for who we really are, we can start going out into the world and just operate as beings human with heart and don’t pretend to be nothing”.
The controversy surrounding his film In 2021, Sia found herself at the center of controversy for her debut film ‘Music’, which she directed, produced and wrote. The film was centered precisely on the story of an autistic girl. Kate Hudson played a drug dealer who has to take care of her stepsister, Music, a non-verbal autistic child. Sia had cast Maddie Ziegler, an actress and dancer who collaborated on many of her videos, who was not on the autism spectrum for the role. Her decision that she had annoyed a lot of people, in addition to portraying the ailments in a cartoonish way. Last but not least, ZIegler’s interpretation was also considered a caricature. After receiving attacks, Sia shut down her Twitter account by promising to cut some of the scenes and including an awareness message early in the film. The singer also apologized for not doing thorough research and consulting the wrong people on autism-related issues.
2023-05-31 12:00:19
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