People looked back at their school days and talked about their experiences which were often before they had been diagnosed. They had attended a mix of mainstream schools, special schools, boarding school and private schools. One person was home schooled from the age of 13 [click here for his mother's story].
Many people did not enjoy school; they didn’t have many friends and several talked about being bullied. One man said “I was bullied a lot. Everyday actually. I think it was because I was slightly different and they thought ‘Oh he’s an easy target’”. Another talked about how he avoided bullying by staying in the background; “That was how I negotiated school, I suppose, I kept a pretty low profile. I was eccentric essentially.”
