Diana - Interview 33  

Diana - Interview 33

Age at Interview: 66
Sex: Female
Background: Diana, a retired nurse, and her husband have four children aged 42, 40, 37 and 28. Ethnic background/nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Diana’s daughter, Vicky, 37, was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome when she was 33 years old. Vicky lives independently and spends the weekends with her parents.

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Diana’s daughter means very well but takes things very literally.

 



But she gets very wound up about things, you know, and if we are going away, you know she gets so excited. You know she is sort of constantly saying, you know, “Come on, you have got to go, got to go.” You know and dashing around like a bull in a china shop. Everything goes flying everywhere and she winds everybody up and she takes everything very literally you know. If people say, you know, “Well I can’t stay long,” then she is constantly saying, “You said you couldn’t stay long, didn’t you ought to be going? You are not supposed to still be here.” You know, and she sort of gets you now, quite rude to people sometimes, you know.
 
And she is always – I mean she is very friendly and she is quite a sort of character in the village, but she is always sort of rushing to help people with things, like you know, if she sees somebody carrying their shopping, she will grab it from them, you know sort of snatch it from them, not say, “Can I help you?” nicely. She will sort of grab and then she will spill everything [laughs] and you know things go wrong for her really. But she is a nice girl who is well meaning, but it just doesn’t come out right. You know.

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