Neil and Catherine - Interview 55  

Neil and Catherine - Interview 55

Background: Neil and Catherine live together. Ethnic background/nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Catherine, 27, was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome when she was 23. She works part time as a volunteer gardener.

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Catherine recalls growing up with her dad.

 



And so she was the only one who really knew before Neil what I was like because my Dad, we have a strong suspicion that my Dad has got Asperger's as well and it was a big problem, sort of growing up with my Dad because he is so distant and sort of he basically used to lock himself in the garden shed all the time and it was this thing where both me and my sister went through a period where we just hated my Dad because we thought he didn’t love us. We thought that he didn’t care. We basically felt like we had just been brought up by my Mum because my Dad was so not there. He was just in the corner, you know, off in his own little world and ever since finding out that I have got Asperger's, it is pretty damned obvious that my Dad has got it as well or he has certainly got a hell of a lot of traits of it, because you know… and so obviously I have probably gotten it from him, because he just fits the bill, totally. So it is pretty much my Mum that has had to deal with it. You know, all of her life. So yes.

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