Caron - Interview 15  

Caron - Interview 15

Age at Interview: 24
Sex: Female
Background: Caron, a full time carer, and her husband have two sons; Leo aged five and Peter aged 2. Ethnic background/nationality: Mixed race.

Brief outline:Caron’s son, Leo, was diagnosed with autism when he was three. He attends a mainstream primary school but Caron worries that he is not receiving appropriate support.

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Caron was not listened to for so long and feels let down.

 



I feel like I was let down. That is what I do. I do feel like I was let down. I feel like they should have listened to me more or maybe I should have been able to put myself across more articulately or I don’t know, maybe I should have done research on it then and wrote comparisons, wrote like a diary for [son] and taken it to the doctors, but then I don’t even know if the doctor would have listened to that anyway. So it wasn’t until you know, the health visitor came round to help me with breastfeeding with [younger brother] and she saw [son] and she said to me you know, “Have you got a referral for him yet?” And I was like, “No, I am still trying but nobody will listen to me.” And then she was like, “Well next time you go to [doctor], next time you go to the doctor, just tell them that I think that there is something.” And then that is what I did and then there was a lot more willing to listen as soon as I said “The health visitor thinks…” blah blah blah as well. You know, although it shouldn’t be like that, they should listen to the parents. But you know if that is what you have to do, that is what you have to do.

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