So tell us, how was it in the work environment for you? Were accommodations made for you? Not

really, no.

I do know that I was...

I was masking a lot.

But I do know because my mum said that each evening that I came home, I was tired.

And I always put it down to my heart because I had a heart condition all those years.

Which is why she always, whenever I came home from work, she always did the cooking and the meals and washing up and letting me get on with doing what I had to do, like relaxing, watching television, and not helping her sort of thing.

And how's your health now? Have you fully recovered from the operations and the like?

Let's first go back into your childhood and tell me where you grew up and was reading and writing always a part of your life?

Actually, I grew up just up the road from where I'm living now in a, I think it was called a Maisonette flat, top of this in London, UK.

I was born there until 1977, I was six and a half.

been moved to the house where I'm in now.

And I've been living here ever since childhood.

It wasn't a normal childhood for two reasons.

Mainly for me, I didn't know at the time that I was autistic or I am autistic.

Can you tell me more about that and how you turned that frightening experience into a book to help other people?