Elsa Williams
@elsawilliams.bsky.social
Writer. Shortlisted for Thousand Films Screenwriting Scheme
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Telly is weird. As an autistic person, I’ve never felt wholesome
The microphone is passed to a young man sat along the row. He laughs a little, avoiding all eye contact, and suddenly struggles to speak…
medium.com
The new series of The Assembly dropped on ITVX at the weekend, starring David Tennant and Danny Dyer.
Here’s an article I wrote last year about the show’s format and portrayals of autism on screen.
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Here’s an article I wrote last year about the show’s format and portrayals of autism on screen.
medium.com/@elsalwillia...
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For those who haven’t read it, I recently wrote a piece on autistic women and the dreaded GP visit
Diagnosed but not believed: Autistic women and the medical gaze
A GP I met for the first time three minutes ago is glancing over my electronic health record, trying to match it with the woman before him…
medium.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
For those who haven’t read it, I recently wrote a piece on autistic women and the dreaded GP visit
For those who haven’t read it, I recently wrote a piece on autistic women and the dreaded GP visit
Diagnosed but not believed: Autistic women and the medical gaze
A GP I met for the first time three minutes ago is glancing over my electronic health record, trying to match it with the woman before him…
medium.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
For those who haven’t read it, I recently wrote a piece on autistic women and the dreaded GP visit
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I tried a more elaborate post but deleted it. I’ll say, do you like my toilet, if so perhaps you’ll like my other things. www.chloecumming.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I tried a more elaborate post but deleted it. I’ll say, do you like my toilet, if so perhaps you’ll like my other things. www.chloecumming.com
Do you have autism? Or did they start changing the layout of the car park at Lidl and you’re crying like they’re excavating a historical site
December 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Do you have autism? Or did they start changing the layout of the car park at Lidl and you’re crying like they’re excavating a historical site
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I love this piece. ❤️ As a neurodivergent healthcare professional, I speak to so many neurodivergent people who have been harmed by the biases baked into our healthcare system, and its increasing inaccessibility to brains that feel the world differently from the norm.
I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes
Diagnosed but not believed: Autistic women and the medical gaze
A GP I met for the first time three minutes ago is glancing over my electronic health record, trying to match it with the woman before him…
medium.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I love this piece. ❤️ As a neurodivergent healthcare professional, I speak to so many neurodivergent people who have been harmed by the biases baked into our healthcare system, and its increasing inaccessibility to brains that feel the world differently from the norm.
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This is excellent:
I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes
Diagnosed but not believed: Autistic women and the medical gaze
A GP I met for the first time three minutes ago is glancing over my electronic health record, trying to match it with the woman before him…
medium.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This is excellent:
Don’t know about you but there’s a lot of suffering around me right now and none of it has been inflicted by the trans community.
December 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Don’t know about you but there’s a lot of suffering around me right now and none of it has been inflicted by the trans community.
God it’s just fucking bleak isn’t it
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
God it’s just fucking bleak isn’t it
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
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Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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This brilliant piece gets to the heart of what happens when you are asked the "difficult question" that you know is coming, but are never sure how to answer.
Thank you @elsawilliams.bsky.social
Thank you @elsawilliams.bsky.social
Hesitated pressing publish.
Did it anyway.
Did it anyway.
Suicide: The Not Quites and the Nearly Somethings
I suppose I’ve always wondered: what counts? If we fall in between, where do we land?
medium.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This brilliant piece gets to the heart of what happens when you are asked the "difficult question" that you know is coming, but are never sure how to answer.
Thank you @elsawilliams.bsky.social
Thank you @elsawilliams.bsky.social
A Brownie Guide thinks of others before herself and does a good terf every day
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A Brownie Guide thinks of others before herself and does a good terf every day
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Powerful and very good.
TW, of course, for suicide.
TW, of course, for suicide.
Hesitated pressing publish.
Did it anyway.
Did it anyway.
Suicide: The Not Quites and the Nearly Somethings
I suppose I’ve always wondered: what counts? If we fall in between, where do we land?
medium.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Powerful and very good.
TW, of course, for suicide.
TW, of course, for suicide.
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This is a tough, great piece of writing.
CWs apply, but this is very very good.
CWs apply, but this is very very good.
Hesitated pressing publish.
Did it anyway.
Did it anyway.
Suicide: The Not Quites and the Nearly Somethings
I suppose I’ve always wondered: what counts? If we fall in between, where do we land?
medium.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is a tough, great piece of writing.
CWs apply, but this is very very good.
CWs apply, but this is very very good.
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"The ideation is more than just thinking about it, the same way infatuation isn’t a mere flicker of interest or moment of wistfulness."
Hesitated pressing publish.
Did it anyway.
Did it anyway.
Suicide: The Not Quites and the Nearly Somethings
I suppose I’ve always wondered: what counts? If we fall in between, where do we land?
medium.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"The ideation is more than just thinking about it, the same way infatuation isn’t a mere flicker of interest or moment of wistfulness."
Hesitated pressing publish.
Did it anyway.
Did it anyway.
Suicide: The Not Quites and the Nearly Somethings
I suppose I’ve always wondered: what counts? If we fall in between, where do we land?
medium.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hesitated pressing publish.
Did it anyway.
Did it anyway.
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This is epic and I felt that deeply. I have had this so much now I don't even attend medical appointments on my own now. As someone at some point will announce my EDS or Autism is really just me being anxious. Despite expert diagnoses the nurse giving me a covid jab knows I'm not like her nephew.
I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes
Diagnosed but not believed: Autistic women and the medical gaze
A GP I met for the first time three minutes ago is glancing over my electronic health record, trying to match it with the woman before him…
medium.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is epic and I felt that deeply. I have had this so much now I don't even attend medical appointments on my own now. As someone at some point will announce my EDS or Autism is really just me being anxious. Despite expert diagnoses the nurse giving me a covid jab knows I'm not like her nephew.
You can tell when a woman on a dating app is autistic, mainly because her bio tends to read like a description on a cat rehoming Facebook page
November 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
You can tell when a woman on a dating app is autistic, mainly because her bio tends to read like a description on a cat rehoming Facebook page
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This is madness.
All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.
The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.
The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is madness.
All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.
The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.
The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
Failed to realise that getting a buzz cut near the end of November would be permanently f**king freezing.
*currently sat eating a plate of roast potatoes wearing a hat
*currently sat eating a plate of roast potatoes wearing a hat
November 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Failed to realise that getting a buzz cut near the end of November would be permanently f**king freezing.
*currently sat eating a plate of roast potatoes wearing a hat
*currently sat eating a plate of roast potatoes wearing a hat
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I didn’t know it was your Tubby mansion, Tubby mansion, Tubby mansion
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I didn’t know it was your Tubby mansion, Tubby mansion, Tubby mansion
I didn’t know it was your Tubby mansion, Tubby mansion, Tubby mansion
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I didn’t know it was your Tubby mansion, Tubby mansion, Tubby mansion
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This is so good. This is me not meeting the criteria only because I get along well with people and have friends, and my trans son undiagnosed for the same reason. The conventional wisdom is that you can't have a high EQ and be autistic, largely because the conventional wisdom is based on cis men.
I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes
Diagnosed but not believed: Autistic women and the medical gaze
A GP I met for the first time three minutes ago is glancing over my electronic health record, trying to match it with the woman before him…
medium.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is so good. This is me not meeting the criteria only because I get along well with people and have friends, and my trans son undiagnosed for the same reason. The conventional wisdom is that you can't have a high EQ and be autistic, largely because the conventional wisdom is based on cis men.