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What it’s Like to be the Mother of an Autistic Child

My Friend Autism

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The Importance of Learning More About Autism

I just feel so sorry for you as a young mum back in those times. Just all the blame, the amount of baggage that young women must have taken on. But it's what's really interesting is, from my point of view, being only diagnosed in the last couple of years. I think this is the next wave of adults now recognising that it might be a characteristic that they have themselves. And somebody like yourself who has adapted to the world,. I think it's only just being recognised how hard adults are working to fit in and not realising everybody else doesn't have to work that hard.

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