S3 Episode 14 - Self Portrait
Sue is 69 and was diagnosed autistic less than a year ago at the age of 68. Ironically, her working life was spent with autistic children and young adults; coincidence?
Probably not.
In 2018, when Sue’s own children were in their mid and late twenties, they suggested to her that she might be autistic - after both realising that they were autistic.
Before they could explore this further together, lockdown came and in 2020 Sue’s beautiful, talented son died of an accidental overdose.
She has no doubt his use of drugs were very much a coping strategy which went very very wrong, and wonders how many undiagnosed autistic people don’t show up on the statistics for early deaths or other misadventures.
Sue finds herself now coming to terms with her own diagnosis, against a background of guilt and shame and grief at not having recognised it before - particularly in her own children; particularly for her son.
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