Nuala - Interview 56  

Nuala - Interview 56

Age at Interview: 43
Sex: Female
Background: Nuala, a software engineer, and her husband have a daughter aged 11 and a son aged 9. Ethnic background/nationality: White British

Brief outline:Nuala’s son, Robert, was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome when he was eight years old. He attends a mainstream primary school with support and is now much happier and settled.

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Nuala’s son has learnt to sleep on his own though she and her husband remain on duty each night just in case he wakes up.

 



He is very, in some ways, he is more like a toddler really in some things and fears are the kind of thing that he can’t really handle things that other 9 year olds would probably have overcome. He still gets very frightened of the dark and we have now managed to learn, teach him to sleep initially on his own, but if he wakes up, he has to have a sleep, he has to go to an adult, so that always one of us has to be on duty every night for him to come to, someone to just cuddle with or to put him back to bed. And we can just about get him back to sleep in his bed, but it is still very difficult to overcome fear.

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