Sara Gibbs
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Sara Gibbs (born 1987[1]) is a British comedy script writer, author of a memoir and autism advocate.[2]
For Gibbs was a script writer for the British television shows HIGNFY, Dead Ringers, The News Quiz, The Now Show and The Mash Report, amongst others.[3] She is the co-founder (Elsa Williams being the other) of The Daily Tism, an on-line satirical comedy sketch in the guise of a news site. Marketed as being by and for autistics, it is produced by Turtle Canyon Comedy. She variously serves as composer, executive producer, writer, and ensemble actor.[4]
She grew up in East Grinstead, England in a culturally Jewish (which sustained her socially)[5] New Age family who made occasional shul visits, and was given a Waldorf education. She is a graduate of the National Film and Television School's Writing & Producing Comedy course.[6]
She was diagnosed with autism spectrum at thirty.[7] She regards her diagnosis "like returning to my own planet" and explanatory of much of her lifelong experiences, behaviour and idiocyncracies.[8][9][10]
