This article is an It’s a Superpower?? special, set in the world of our audio sitcom! To find out more, see the bottom of the piece.

An autistic woman told to “use her imagination” demonstrated why that is a terrible, terrible idea, according to the horrible nightmare-beasts watching on from the safety of a gingerbread house.

Pix, 39, brought her friends into her paracosm, a vivid fantasy dream world, to escape their nagging mentor as well as the rampaging hen party who were out to get them. The novelty of being in a beautiful enchanted forest soon wore off after Pix’s imagination birthed precocious child-ghosts, grumpy fairies, and something called the Self-Aware Wolf, which is fairly self-explanatory.

Pix said: “So my friends are all upset with me because my imagination-beasties are forcing them to confront their worst fears and deepest insecurities. God, everyone’s a critic.”

“Stop whinging, Wilder! They can’t actually hurt you, you know.”

Wilder, also 39, screamed back: “YES THEY CAN! Your Self-Aware Wolf just bit me! Argh – ah – AWOO!”

“Boy, am I glad all this isn’t happening to me,” said Pix, moments before it happened to her.

It’s a Superpower?? is the first ever sitcom by and for autistic people (poor things) and is available now wherever you get podcasts. If you can’t wait to find out what happens, you can listen to the whole thing early and ad-free at selected tiers on Patreon. 

The show is a Daily Tism production, created by Sara Gibbs and Andrew Hickey of a History of Rock Music in 500 Songs and written by The Daily Tism co-editor, Sara Gibbs, with additional material from the best of the best of the UK’s autistic comedy writing scene. 

It was produced by Gibbs with Hare Lockwood and Sarah Amero and directed by Gibbs and Amero. It stars our very own team members, Sarah Amero and Guy Kelly, along with Alasdair Beckett-King, John Butler, Stuart Laws, Georgia Mackenzie, Lizzie Schenk, Abigail Weinstock – and some frankly unbelievable A-list cameos.