Gail – Interview 06b  

Gail – Interview 06b

Age at Interview: 36
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 34
Background: Gail is single and is a student. Ethnic background/nationality: White British

Brief outline:At 18 year old, Gail suspected she may have Asperger syndrome, but did not feel the need to get diagnosed until more recently. She was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome two years ago.

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Gail finds the written word more tangible and is less distracted when writing online.

 



Like sometimes when I’m talking to someone they’d do a sort of confused look like that, and then I immediately feel self-conscious and I think oh gosh I’m being confusing and then that makes it harder for me to say something. Like for me, I express myself much better in writing than I do in speaking, so I go on the internet a lot and I write a blog and I go onto forums and talk to people that way, and I find it much easier to connect to people through writing than through speaking. Because there’s not all the distractions, you just and once it’s actually in the written word you see it, it’s tangible whereas when you’re talking the words just disappear and you forget where you were going with them, but you can go back to them when you’re writing and you can see them and you can take your time and you can say everything you’ve got to say, without constantly monitoring someone’s response to what you’re saying, if that makes sense.

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