Liam O’Dell (He/Him)

@liamodell.com

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Award-winning deaf and disabled journalist | Author of ‘Selling Out the Spectrum’ (2024) 📖 | Theatre critic | Views my own. Website 🔗: liamodell.com

Sir Stephen Timms and two British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters on a stage, speaking.
News headline reads: ‘Potential autism breakthrough as three-year-old boy’s symptoms are reversed using cheap drug’.
Donald Trump behind a podium in the White House. Text overlay reads: ‘Absolutely reprehensible”.
A still from the trailer for 28 Years Later, showing a skeletal, zombie-like person with hollowed-out eyes, thin arms and exposed ribs in a flower field. The Internet is saying it looks like Cillian Murphy.
Since Yasmin and others spoke out in 2021, I decided it was best I step back from the ace community altogether in order to carry out anti-racism work offline, in private. Finally, I did not wish to air my private life as publicly as this, but my ex-partner has repeatedly alluded to traumatic experiences encountered during our two-year relationship. I am deeply upset they feel that way, but I want to make it clear that I believed it to be a loving and caring relationship. Our family and friends saw it that way too. Like every relationship, we had our ups and downs, but it saddens me and my family that they now feel traumatised from our time together. It is clear I have upset a lot of people, I am so sorry. At this point, I don't know what else I need to do in order to express that more clearly.