To Be Left Alone: Living with Autism – 6
RUNNING AWAY AGAIN I went to New Zealand for six months and spent most of the time camping out in the bush, sleeping in my car, completely alone, only venturing near a town if...
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To Be Left Alone: Living with Autism – 5
MOVING TO WALES So I commenced what I hoped would be a peaceful life in the countryside, but it didn’t really turn out that way. The road outside the house turned out to be...
To Be Left Alone: Living with Autism – 4
By EMMA WISHART BEING A GROWN UP When I was 22 I decided I wanted to buy a house, so I accepted the permanent job that my current temporary placement was offering me and...
To Be Left Alone: Living with Autism – 3
By EMMA WISHART How I Wasted Most of My Life I met a man who had a profound impact on my life. I met him through a friend at a gig in 1986. We...
To Be Left Alone: Living with Autism – 2
By EMMA WISHART MY TEENAGE YEARS When I was 14 I reached crisis point and made a very genuine attempt to kill myself. I was utterly devastated to wake up and find that it...
Autistic Pride – Undaunted by Lockdown
By EMMA WISHART For the past three years, Ceri Dobbing has been organising Cardiff Autistic Pride, and she and the event were featured on the BBC show Richard and Jaco Take On The World....
To Be Left Alone: Living with Autism – 1
By EMMA WISHART TO BE LEFT ALONE ‘Thoughtless ignorance cuts her adrift She stares at the stars and she feels part of it Aloof to man’s pull from nature A fool in the eyes...
The Challenges of Autism
“Someone could learn an entire bus timetable but not understand that if they stand at the bus stop at a certain time, a bus will come and take them to a certain place. That’s...
