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‘Am I allowed to be funny?’ Ashley Storrie on acting, autism – and grieving her mum, Janey Godley

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Ashley Storrie co-wrote and stars in the BBC Scotland comedy series Dinosaur .

She won the best writer award for film and television alongside Matilda Curtis .

She also walked away with the award for favourite Scot on screen, voted for by the public.

Two weeks before her mother, the comic and writer Janey Godley , died at 63 .

She was diagnosed with autism in her early 30s and diagnosed with Asperger 's syndrome.

Ashley Storrie was diagnosed with autism when she was 11 years old .

Her GP warned her not to get diagnosed, “because it will impact your employability and you’re employable” But her GP didn’t want her to be diagnosed, she says.

“My parents felt a lot of shame, because we came from the East End [of Glasgow ] and I went to private school in the West End”.

In 2018 , she started hosting a regular Friday night show on BBC Radio Scotland .

That was followed by a BBC Radio 4 series, What’s the Story , Ashley Storrie ?, which has been commissioned for a second run.

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