Sara Gibbs
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Sara Gibbs is a British comedy script writer and autism advocate[1] with credits on the British television shows HIGNFY, Dead Ringers, The News Quiz, The Now Show and The Mash Report amongst others.
She grew up in East Grinstead, England in a culturally Jewish (which sustained her socially)[2] New Age family who made occasional shul visits, and was given a Waldorf education. She is a graduate of the National Film and Television School's Writing & Producing Comedy course.[3]
She was diagnosed with autism spectrum at thirty.[4] She regards her diagnosis "like returning to my own planet" and explanatory of much of her lifelong behaviour and idiocyncracies.[5][6][7] Her 2021 memoir Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful labels was well received.[8]
Personal life
Gibbs lives with her husband in southeast England, and identifies as bisexual.[9]
References
- ^ Sherwood, Harriet (27 June 2021). "'We don't need to be cured or fixed': writers speak out on autism". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ^ Gibbs, Sara (12 October 2018). "What It's Like Being the Only Jew in Town". Hey Alma. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ^ "Sara Gibbs". The Soho Agency. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ^ Odell, Michael (17 June 2021). "I was diagnosed with autism at 30 — I want to save other women the same struggle". The Times. Archived from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ^ Gibbs, Sara (7 February 2019). "'Knowing I am autistic has set me free to be me'". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ^ "I think theres a lack of understanding of how autism can present in girls, who are often socialised differently". National Autistic Society. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ^ "What It's Like to Get an Autism Diagnosis After Years of Being Called Difficult, Dramatic and Lazy". Pocket. 24 June 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ^ "Comedy writer Sara Gibbs pens autism memoir". British Comedy Guide. 30 October 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ^ Gibbs, Sara [@Sara_Rose_G] (2 November 2022). "I've always felt weird about saying this, like I'm being dramatic or something & I realise now how much of that is the biphobic idea that if I'm with a man, I'm not bi enough. So just for the record, I'm bi. And I wish it hadn't taken me into my thirties to understand it" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2023 – via Twitter.
External links
- Official website
- "My life-changing autism diagnosis (Kim Chakanetsa interviews Sara Gibbs and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu)". The Conversation, BBC World Service. 19 June 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- 21st-century English memoirists
- 21st-century English women writers
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- English comedy writers
- Jewish comedy writers
- British women memoirists
- English Jewish writers
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- People from East Grinstead
- People on the autism spectrum
- British writers with disabilities
- English people with disabilities
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