Professor Tony Attwood is a FANTASTIC example of a person who writes well about autism. As is Dr Michelle Garnett. I have even said to my GP that if I need a psychologist, they are the ones to see, as conventional psychology is akin to putting petrol in a diesel engine and wondering why it will sound like it's going to start and then splutter and stop.

I remember seeing a book "All Cats Have Asperger's" and I remember with Nutsy, my late cat, when my brother gave him to me for a cuddle, in November, 2015, he said, "I think Nutsy loves you." When I'd come down to stay, he and I would be in the garage and he'd get up and sleep on the bed with me, but Nutsy didn't like being closed in.

When I moved back in, on the first morning, I told Nutsy I'd get him some breakfast and I said, "I'll be back in a second," and went to the bathroom. I noticed the door move slightly and I felt a presence and turned around to see he was sitting there behind me. He followed me out to the kitchen and I fed him. I told my friend about it, who said, "" Well, you're his human." My father said, the following year, that Nutsy and I were birds of a feather.

With changes to plans, I can remember, in 2019, my brother's Nissan X-Trail was affected by the Takata Airbag recall, and my father and I had to go down to the dealer on a day that I had to go to hospital. The arrangement I had with my father was that I'd come straight home and we'd go down to the dealer, however, when I arrived home, I found the X-Trail parked on the driveway and I walked inside and said to my father, "What's going on?" "With what?" "Well, you and I were going to go down and collect the X-Trail, but it's here." "Oh, your brother came over for lunch and the dealer rang to say it was ready so he took me down to get it." "Well, why didn't he take it home?" "Oh, he didn't need it until Sunday." (He was using the spare car). I mightn't have minded so much if my father had picked up the phone and rung me and said, "Your brother has come over for lunch and the dealer has rung to say the X-Trail's ready. Your brother has offered to drive me down to collect it, do you want him to, or would you like me to wait until you come home?"

I am not someone who does things spontaneously, everything has to planned right down to the last detail. I have a pair of sandy coloured chinos that I wear to the hospital in the warmer months, for example (the air-conditioning gets a bit cool so I find they're warmer than shorts), and I wear all my clothes as sets, I don't mix and match.