Hollyoaks’ Talia Grant Will Be Soap’s First Autistic Actress As Brooke Hathaway
More good news we heard while we were offline that we thought was worth sharing:
New character Brooke will arrive on screen this summer, when she’s fostered by the Osborne family. Brooke is autistic and Talia, who identifies as having high-functioning autism, is the first female actress who is autistic to land a mainstream role on British television.
Talia commented: “I am so excited to be joining Hollyoaks. I have met some of the cast and being on set was fun and everyone was super-nice and made me feel welcome.
“For a long while there has been no representation on screen of autistic women, especially autistic women of colour, so I am really looking forward to developing the character of Brooke and representing something that perhaps people are unaware of.”
Same Difference 
>”especially autistic women of colour”
Tokenism.
So Channel4 are going to have a storyline where
she gets tortured and starved by the DWP…
sexually molested by Social Services…
and then deported by the Home Office
?
>”and representing something that perhaps people are unaware of.”
Yeah Right.
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