Christine - Interview 20  

Christine - Interview 20

Sex: Female
Background: Christine has two adopted children, the oldest, Brian, is 30 years old. She lives with Brian and Alice, her daughter’s child. Ethnic background/nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Christine’s son, Brian, was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome four years ago after being wrongly diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was 14. He lives at home now after years in a residential home and attends an autism day centre during the week.

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Brian is doing ‘incredibly’ at an autism initiative day centre where he goes five days a week.

 



I have got him that he goes five days a week to Autism Initiative which is a day centre for autistic people and he is doing very well. It is incredible. He has started, about eighteen months ago maybe, he has been going there three years, he started making models, making villages. He is doing the Eiffel Tower at the moment, but they are like big, like miniature villages and they look up, whatever he is going to do they look it up on the computer and then they do a printout and then they decide how they are going to do it. And when someone comes to look round Brian takes the people round, he tells me. And they found out that he likes fishing and he goes fishing. The first time or the second time he lost his rod. They got it in though. It is not his it is theirs but he actually… the fish took the rod as well.

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