Peter Wynn
1 min readJun 10, 2023

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I love most of those songs you've got on CD, too. I remember being stuck in a bathroom several times, and they were deliberate actions. When I was in Year Eight, of a Tuesday morning, we used to have Manual Arts before morning tea, and I remember, I had to use the bathroom (I hated using the school bathrooms because they'd stink, and some people didn't understand that morning tea and lunch were not cigarette breaks and they'd have a smoke in the toilets. The punishment for smoking, in my day at school, was six strokes of the cane if you were a boy. If you were a girl, you were a girl, you were put on detention) I noticed the room grow darker, and a group of Year Ten boys had locked me in there and one was leaning against the door. I called out and finally a teacher came along who told them to clear out. One boy said that their next class was Metalwork, and the teacher said, "I don't care!" The same boy copped a blast from my art teacher one day because he was being a nuisance.

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Peter Wynn
Peter Wynn

Written by Peter Wynn

Diagnosed with autism at 35. Explained a lifetime of difference.

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