Rachel - Interview 8  

Rachel - Interview 8

Age at Interview: 42
Sex: Female
Background: Rachel, a former social worker, is now a full time carer and lives with her husband and two sons aged 9 and 6.

Brief outline:Rachel’s sons, Thomas and Matthew, have both been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. They both attend a mainstream primary school with support.

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Rachel sees the future negatively or positively depending on what kind of day she is having.

 



How do you view the future?
 
It depends what kind of day I am having. I will be honest with you. When we discuss Tom’s statement I am not quite as positive because everything is so negative. I see two ways. I mean I see him going off to college and doing really well and having a relationship with somebody that sees him for the sweet, lovely, honest, straightforward boy, not one that is going to be saying something one minute to get what he wants and then running off. Somebody who is going to be honest and straight and love him for that.
 
And then at other times I see how much he struggles in school and then I see him still living at home when he is 40. But I don’t really, I don’t really mean it. I think he will probably find his way. He has got that determination that he wants to find his way in life and he wants to progress. He says that. He wants to be a zoo keeper so he is going to go and working Australia Zoo with Steve Irwin. “And I am going to live in Australia aren’t we mum?” [laughs] “All right sweetheart.” Because my husband is Australian, so we can actually go and live there. Matthew is much younger and right now he just now to be a Jedi [laughs]. I don’t think he is really going to get that wish [laughs] though he is practising a lot.

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