Yesterday was hard. Very hard. Director's Owen Liddle, Jenny Payne, and Emma Dalmayne left home at 5am to fly over to Edinburgh to protest outside The William Frasier Centre.
We met her mum Shona and made our way there, seeing and speaking to Megan through a window was devastating, she looks broken; but she is strong. She finds speech hard but she was able to speak her truth here in a now viral video:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGenojBFT/ it's also on other platforms of Autistic Inclusive Meets.
The Canary did a great piece on Megan's situation here, thank you to Nicole Jeffrey:
"On Tuesday 23 July a protest took place to raise awareness of an 18 year-old woman called Megan Docherty who is allegedly being mistreated, physically and verbally abused, and held against her will in an NHS facility after being violently taken from her home:But this wasn’t by criminal thugs or gang members – well, not officially anyway.
This was by the police, social services, and medical professionals.
David Gray-Hammond also did an indepth moving piece here:
"Who is Megan Docherty?
Megan is an 18 year old Autistic, Learning Disabled, Hypermobile person with ARFID (more on this below). Let me reiterate the most important part of that statement. Megan is a person. Megan is a human being, not despite her differences.
She is a human being because no two humans are the same. We are told via the orwellian doublespeak of our society that difference is not a crime. Yet for Megan, difference is the reason that her liberty has been deprived and her family torn away from her.
Megan is a victim of normative violence. Megan is one of us. I am Megan, you are Megan. We are all Megan.
Because if the world is not safe for Megan, then it is not safe for any of us. Megan is a prisoner in a hostile culture, one where mistreatment and abuse is reframed as “least restrictive practice” and “compassionate care”..
Please share the article, the video and this petition. Please send Megan's Voice a follow, they are on and Tiktok there is also a Facebook group to follow. On X its @megansvoice22
UPDATE:
Majority of photos by Owen Liddle
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