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WENN LAWSON

For example, I am no good at budgeting, I am not good with filling in forms, I am not good with paperwork, I am not good with money, I can do statistics but not numbers, which sounds a bit odd; but formulas are a lot easier to work with than everyday math. So I have family who take charge of those sort of things, and that frees me up just to focus in on my writing and lecturing and touring to talk in various ways about autism. If I didn’t have that, I'm not sure quite how I’d cope. I feel very strongly about Viktor Frankl’s understanding about meaning in life, and the meaning for me is sharing about what autism is. So I suppose that is how we separate the roles in our family. I adapt by accepting my limitations. It’s hard sometimes accepting that I am not very good at crossing roads. I've only been knocked over once this year so far, which isn’t bad. Even though I know academically about looking in all directions and listening while you cross the road, what tends to happen is that I get so focused on noticing that that truck has now gone, I forget again to look the way that the truck came from just to check there’s nothing else coming. Things like this I find quite difficult but I realise that I have these limitations. and so I tend not to travel alone and I have a lot of support.