Peter - Interview 50  

Peter - Interview 50

Age at Interview: 33
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 30
Background: Peter lives on his own and works as a kitchen assistant. Ethnic background/nationality: White Scottish.

Brief outline:Peter, aged 33, was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome three years ago. He is seeing a psychologist regularly which helps him with depression and he is finding life is getting easier over time.

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Peter finds telling people about Asperger syndrome hard to deal with because he is never sure what their response will be.

 



Trying to explain it to people again. I should get a tape recorder and say, “Listen to this” [laughs] because you don’t know how people are going to react. You don’t know if they are going to push you away or would they be interested to find out more or… that is probably the hardest part for me. Probably also to try and think of the people you want to tell, people you know you can trust so they don’t go around blabbing to everyone because I think… I still feel like… a wee bit of that is getting labelled. Just because I have got autism it doesn’t mean to say you should treat me any differently. I feel some people might just think oh he has got autism, or Asperger's, we had better treat him a bit better. I don’t want that. I just want to be treated the way everyone else gets treated.
 
If they are going to ask questions just ask me and I will see if I can answer them, just don’t kind of back off or don’t bring the subject, don’t bring up the subject, if you are not safe, if you don’t like bringing up the subject, don’t do it. But if you want to know more I will do my best to explain it to you. But I think it is telling people because you don’t know how they are going to react so.

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