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'It makes a good punchline': Meet the Edinburgh Fringe comedians playing their neurodiversity for laughs
Novellie credits his friend, Scottish comedian Fern Brady, as the “trailblazer” who kickstarted the new openness around neurodiversity, for her 2021 show Autistic Bikini Queen. “But more generally, I think the reason people are talking about it is because …