“Kate is a Friend of Mine”: The Story of a Diarist, Autism and Above All- Life
In the summer, A new short film will be filmed about what it’s like to be Autistic, but told through her friends and diary entries.
In three volumes of Diaries, there is pain, love, addresses and other events that have happened between 2019- 2023.
The author behind these diaries is an autistic woman, who struggles with her own self worth- as well as self dignity. She has tried to unalive herself many times and yet, she lives to tell the tales.
The first volume began in Feb. 16. 2019. She begins with an essay about Deanna Durbin called “You Came Back”.
“Deanna, you are coming back to me. You’ve been gone since April of 2013 and this is just the beginning,” She wrote. She wrote about how Deanna was finally coming back to her after years of not being to speak of her, since Durbin’s passing in 2013.
She then writes another essay on Durbin on the same day, just called “What Did These Men Do To You?” In this essay, she goes through Durbin’s rocky first marriage and crumbling second. She posts photos and writes in a variety of different pens.
On February 18, 2019, she wrote her first essay on Judy Garland, called “Defending Judy”. In this essay, she expresses how Judy Garland was screwed over and how she was misused. In the next diary entry, she talks about Helen Parrish and then, it seems like she discusses about her day, and adds photos and things from her day. The rest of the diary, she mentions her weight, keeps track of it. Then, she writes about her research on Deanna Durbin, contacts she’s made- with families of stars- Priscilla Lane’s, Robert Cumming’s and Peggy Moran’s.
The Second Diary, as she has said “Was the hardest one to read back”. The diary begins with Otto Wolf information, guest lists for the impending wedding and research for the Wolf book, as well as publishers that rejected the manuscript. She talks about her job and friends and how she was helping a friend when she became destitute. Then, all of sudden the voice of her diary begins to shift to more darker themes, such as suicide and depresssion. She wrote about how she was turned against, and how she wants the best for the future.
In the current volume of her diary, she begins her diary with the information that she wrote for work. Then, she began with some Mary Pickford Information and then, she begins writing her feelings down about what happened the year before, how she said it was eating at her, and how she finally was getting help for her depression. With this, she writes about her depression as well as trying to end her life. With the diary progresses, she writes about doctor’s appoitments, new medicines, daily things, novel ideas, as well as birthday present ideas for Darci Shaw (an Actress). She writes about getting an email from Darci and how she talked to several survivors and finally, the end of her diary, was her feelings of depression as well as spirtual intervention, by Tomas Kulka, Otto Wolf, Felicitas Garda (Wolf), Donia and Ester Serger (Sorger), Thomas Pfeffer and his brother, Jan-Peter, as well as stormy encounter with Mary Berg, to a bike ride with Margot Frank, to a walk with Elisabeth (Elizabeth) Kaufmann Koenig.
She discusses her feelings and that is what she intends to continue to document her life in another volume of diaries.
In the film Kate is a Friend of Mine, she gets all the people who love her together and they begin to read certain entries. The entries, will hopefully be narrated by some stars, but mostly, friends of hers, who are willing to read the diary entries that were picked.
The film begins in Summer, with things getting set up as of right now, but the Orange Diary (Tomas Kulka Cover), will be done and then volume 4 will begin.
The Serger (Sorger) Sisters dawn the cover of Volume 4, the dark green journal will serve as another volume of diary.
