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SAMANTHA PETERS:

When Acis was diagnosed, my father was actually in the room when the diagnosis was made. And the professor who made the diagnosis actually pointed out to me that Dad was actually behaving in rather an odd manner, because the multidisciplinary team were all sitting at one end of the room talking to me and talking to Acis, and my father was sitting, rocking in a chair, next to the door, whistling and singing to himself as though he really didn't have a care in the world. And at that point, I realised perhaps there might have been a connection between what my children heard and the way in which my father had behaved for the biggest part of my life.