Luke - Interview 35  

Luke - Interview 35

Age at Interview: 18
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 8
Background: Luke, aged 18, lives with his family and is currently unemployed.

Brief outline:Luke was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome when he was eight years old. He has written three books and is a keen photographer.

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Luke never understood why children played things like cops and robbers.

 



Yes. I have always have done. In primary school I think it started. It was when everyone was playing like cowboys and Indians and cops and robbers and things and I didn’t get it because all these people were pretending to be like a cowboy or a robber and I didn’t understand why. For obvious reasons, because they weren’t, they were just a bunch of school kids running around and you know all the way through like PE and stuff, I never got the point in kicking a piece of leather into a net and all these different things were really confusing. So I have always known that I was a little bit different, you know to some other people and apparently it is noticeable from the outside as well, but I never knew that much [laughs].

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