Sara Gibbs is a British comedy script writer and

autism The autism spectrum, often referred to as just autism or in the context of a professional diagnosis autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental condition (or conditions) characterized by difficulti ...

advocate with credits on the British television shows '' HIGNFY'', '' Dead Ringers'', ''

The News Quiz ''The News Quiz'' is a British topical panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4. History ''The News Quiz'' was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as chairman. Subsequently, it was chaired by Barry Took from 1979 to 1981, Simon Hoggart from ...

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The Now Show ''The Now Show'' is a British radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, which satirises the week's news. The show is a mixture of stand-up, sketches and songs hosted by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. The show used to feature regular appearances by J ...

'' and ''

The Mash Report ''Late Night Mash'' is a British satirical comedy broadcast on Dave, as a continuation of ''The Mash Report'' on BBC Two. It is hosted by Rachel Parris, formerly by Nish Kumar, and features an array of comedians satirising the week's news. Fi ...

'' amongst others. She grew up in East Grinstead, England in a culturally Jewish (which sustained her socially)

New Age New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars conside ...

family who made occasional

shul A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worshi ...

visits, and was given a

Waldorf education Waldorf education, also known as Steiner education, is based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. Its educational style is Holistic education, holistic, intended to develop pupils' intellectual, artistic ...

. She regards being diagnosed on the autism spectrum at thirty "like returning to my own planet" and explanatory of much of her lifelong behaviour and idiocyncracies. Her 2021 memoir ''Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful labels'' was well received. She is a graduate of the

National Film and Television School The National Film and Television School (NFTS) is a film, television and games school established in 1971 and based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. It is featured in the 2021 ranking by ''The Hollywood Repor ...

’s Writing & Producing Comedy course. She lives with her husband in southeast England, and identifies as

bisexual Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females, or to more than one gender. It may also be defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity, whi ...

.https://twitter.com/Sara_Rose_G/status/1587709990411837440

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BBC World Service - The Conversation, My life-changing autism diagnosis
BBC interview {{DEFAULTSORT:Gibbs, Sara English comedy writers Jewish comedy writers English memoirists British women memoirists 21st-century memoirists 21st-century English writers 21st-century English women writers English Jewish writers Jewish women writers People from East Grinstead People on the autism spectrum Writers with disabilities English people with disabilities Living people Year of birth missing (living people)