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CHARLENE

I sometimes get on with my family. Sometimes, I don't because it's like-- so especially my mum and my sister, because I've got a learning disability, they treat me, like, different, you know. They don't treat me like an adult, like, half the time.

CIAN

My relationship with my family is kind of-- it's reasonably good, but it could be better. The problem is I spend too much time with my family, like any-- like nearly anyone that's got a learning disability. Because I didn't get the chance to, like, go off to university somewhere else-- I was stuck at home, at a poxy college-- I basically have lived with my mum and my brother all my life. And it can be incredibly hard, although I love my family to bits. I'd love to be able to live independently, but there's no-- there isn't really much option for me to just live independently.

TERRY

Well, what-- I live with my mum. And she's pretty chilled out. She is getting on a bit so she needs my help more than-- well, I need her help. [INAUDIBLE]

DAYO

I live with my mum. Yeah, I'm always very close. Yeah, I'm always very close to my family. Yeah, my family do give me the independence. You know, whenever I go out, just to make sure-- they always call, like, just to make sure that I'm all right. And that's a, you know, very good, positive thing.

SHAUN

My mum was very overprotective. So I wasn't allowed out pretty much. I was pretty much seen as someone almost trying to hide from society. And that happened until I was 16, 17, went to college-- still was coming home, still not doing anything much. And then my mum left in 2012-- my mum, my dad, broke up.

And it completely went reverse-- so it reversed because my dad was very much more like myself. He knew about what he'd get out and do what-- was right you know, and do what was needed to do. I was having to deal with quite a lot, but I'm dealing with a lot more better services. And now, my dad and me get on very well, so I'm pretty happy with how things have become.

CHARLENE

My nan I love so much. She always supports me, in everything you know, she’s the one that taught me everything, [LAUGHS] even-- Even about the birds and the bees, she taught me that.