![]() She wears noise-canceling headphones on public transport to cut out the sensory overstimulation around her. Some of the therapy involves Brady learning scripted lines to help her navigate her way through situations that can be stress-inducing to her, from social engagements to hair and make-up sessions for TV. ![]() All you can do is prevent the build-up." (Raphael Neal/PA) "I reduced them a lot with some really good therapy and amazing coaching and over the years I’ve managed to reduce the meltdowns more and more, but it will never go away. Today, at 36, she says the meltdowns are less prevalent. ![]() A woman in the audience approached her afterward and told her it sounded like a description of autism. She pursued an assessment following a gig in Berlin in 2017, where Brady joked onstage that she didn’t fit in with other women. ![]() "I’ll always have a sensory system that is wired differently where a light touch makes me want to scratch my skin off, sudden noises cause me pain and fluorescent light feels like it’s sucking the life out of me," the stand-up comedian and TV’s Taskmaster contestant writes in her new book, Strong Female Character, in which she charts living with autism.īrady was only diagnosed in 2021. Fern Brady still has the meltdowns which have plagued her life – overwhelming anxiety which she masks until she gets behind closed doors, kicking furniture, smashing ornaments, punching walls. ![]()
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