However, restraint use is still common in (and out) of school settings. ♬ original sound – Autism Education ✨ RobinĪs autistic advocates pointed out, the prone restraint has led to countless deaths among autistic students.
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(CW: Autistic meltdown and restraint.) share widely, boycott this movie and watch to the end for call to action. For autistic students and students with disabilities, the experience can also lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health conditions. In another scene at a park, Zu forces Music onto the ground face down in a prone restraint, a dangerous restraint that can cause suffocation and death. In one clip, Ebo (Leslie Odom Jr.) carries Music over his shoulder before holding her down on the floor. It’s unclear (and unlikely) the film critiques this use of restraints.
In each of the leaked clips, Music’s caregivers restrain her during a meltdown. Two leaked video clips from Sia’s upcoming film about an autistic girl surfaced thanks to TiKTok user The clips are from “Music,” a feature film in which newly sober Zu (Kate Hudson) finds herself the sole guardian of her autistic teenage half-sister Music (Maddie Ziegler). 10.Īs Sia retweets positive reviews, the autism community is taking her upcoming movie “Music” to task again, this time for showing a type of restraint used on autistic people that can lead to death. Her Twitter account was deleted about an hour after posting these messages. “I listened to the wrong people and that is my responsibility, my research was clearly not thorough enough, not wide enough,” Sia said. The restraint scenes will be removed in future editions of the movie. According to tweets captured by Variety and other news outlets, Sia said she had been “listening” and indicated “Music” would include a disclaimer stating the movie does not condone the use of restraint on autistic people. Update: On Tuesday, after “Music” was nominated for two Golden Globe awards, Sia again took to Twitter to address the autistic community’s concerns about the film.