Inside the UK art studio empowering autistic artists amid Trump's discredited autism claims

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Inside the UK art studio empowering autistic artists amid Trump's discredited autism claims  An art studio for autistic artists in Kent, south-east England, is thriving, selling more than 70 works in its latest exhibition while offering a space for creativity and connection.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/10/22/inside-the-uk-art-studio-empowering-autistic-artists-amid-trumps-discredited-autism-claims  Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.

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00:00Throughout the nine years I've been working with this particular group of artists I have

00:26seen every one of them come through real emotional difficulties. Art is a great way of helping

00:33us not necessarily verbally understanding what we're going through but to be able to

00:38express it in a very silent way. Some of our artists are able to have small discussions

00:46around how they feel and their emotions, some of them are non-verbal.

00:55So we hold our major summer show at the Margate School of Arts in Margate. We have benefited

01:01greatly from exhibiting in Margate and particularly at the school. It's been six years of collaboration,

01:07we've seen the Margate School grow and we've grown alongside them. Our exhibitions when

01:13you walk into them doesn't shout out disability, it shouts out colour, it shouts out joy.

01:27So taking Tylenol is not good. I'll say it, it's not good.

01:35I was heartbroken. Remember the comments about President Trump? It upset me because partly

01:46as a woman it felt very much as attack against women. Once again it was the patriarchy, it

01:51was like yes you are a woman, you've done this, it's your fault. What makes me angry is that

01:56we wouldn't be as a society, we wouldn't be where we are if we didn't have people with

02:01neurodivergence. If we didn't have a lot of the scientific and medical and mathematical

02:09society, we need neurodivergence, we need that different perspective. And also it'd just be

02:15really boring if we were all the same.

02:19Trump said that the prevalence of autism should be none. They spoke about ending autism. Secretary

02:25Kennedy again said autism destroys families. It was just like a press conference that was very

02:33promoting a view of autism that we try not to use anymore in the autistic advocacy space,

02:38certainly in the autistic advocacy space, but in the broader autism advocacy space as well.

02:42This view that autism is a tragedy that needs to be ended. And we know now, thanks to research into

02:48autism, that that's not going to happen. There will not be a cure. And what we should be focusing on

02:54is making quality of life better for autistic people who are here today.

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