Jane - Interview 27  

Jane - Interview 27

Age at Interview: 47
Sex: Female
Background: Jane, a Senior Lecturer (Neonatal and Child) Nursing, lives with her son aged 14 and daughter aged 9. Ethnic background/nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Jane’s son, John, was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome when he was 9 years old. He is at a mainstream secondary school and hopes to study augmentation, artificial limbs and electronics at university.

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Jane describes how she tries to help her son feel balanced and learn to recognise his stress.

 



And I don’t know whether, whether he is going to maintain his emotional stability and be in a position… He gets very, very stressed over exams. I don’t know whether his progress and his academic achievement will remain on the level that it is or whether he is going to develop bipolar disorder for example. I know what the relationships are with mental health, particularly anxiety and I can see that he has those, so what I am trying to do is help him feel balanced and able to recognize his own stress so that he can take appropriate measures for himself and to speak to people early so that it is not too late. And I don’t know how much I can do in that line. I can only hope that he learns to recognize, to do, and then do something. That is for me to sit and watch on.

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