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Evening Standard
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Tina Campbell

'We don’t stock that sort of book’: Woman who self-published story for autistic son inspires TV show

Ready Eddie Go! creator Nikki Saunders, who is flying the flag for inclusion in popular children’s media, has revealed the nine blunt words that started it all.

The 38-year-old mum-of-two from Suffolk worked in Special Education and her eldest son Tyler was diagnosed with sensory processing differences, hypermobility, and autism at the age of three.

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