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Sarah Lancashire at the Arqiva British Academy Television Awards 2014 [May 18, 2014]

The first BAFTA awards—originally known as the British Film Academy Awards—were handed out on May 29, 1949, at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London.

Best British Film: The Fallen Idol

Picture from any source (British or Foreign): The Best Years of Our Lives (USA)

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Sarah Lancashire at the Arqiva British Academy Television Awards 2014 [May 18, 2014]

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What a lot of ppl don’t understand about mental illness or neurological conditions is that you are experiencing non stop moral injury bc you are constantly being misunderstood by ppl and accidentally hurting ppl or making them uncomfortable. Our brains give us urges to react a certain way or do compulsions and that’s why we behave the way we do. It’s like trying to resist the urge to scratch an itch—you can try to suppress it and may successfully resist the urge but it doesn’t always work and sometimes it just happens anyway. That’s why it bothers me so much when ppl act like we are just using our symptoms as an excuse to get away with inappropriate behavior bc I am constantly being triggered by my own behavior and accidentally triggering other ppl and it’s really traumatizing to go through that. You can never truly relax bc you’re always expecting ppl to misunderstand, dehumanize, and scapegoat you. It leads to really bad trust issues bc you don’t know if someone will be accepting and empathetic or if they will try to weaponize your symptoms to assassinate your character and destroy your life. I have severe betrayal trauma now.

I saw all the discourse surrounding what happened at the BAFTAs back in Feb and I had a lot of thoughts on it. Seeing how a lot of ppl were attacking him, assassinating his character, and calling for ppl like him to be segregated made me feel very sad and disheartened. It feels like society will never truly be accepting of ppl with disabilities or understand that our symptoms aren’t a reflection of our character. I wish ppl were more educated on things like this bc I think one of the main reasons for the reactivity is ignorance and lack of understanding of the symptoms.