The Girl in This Jarring Autism PSA Used the Ad to Reveal Her Own Autism to Classmates

A plea for more patience

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A deliberately grating new PSA is trying to help people better understand what it’s like to be autistic, by illustrating the sensory overload that a 12-year-old girl with the developmental disability experiences regularly.

As Holly—a real schoolgirl living with autism in the U.K.—gets on the bus in the morning, a series of interactions that might seem innocuous to a person without autism begin to pile up. She struggles to process them quickly, and others lose patience.

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