Chris Packham: I loathed myself and thought I was broken before autism diagnosis

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The environmentalist who lives in the New Forest has revealed he was only diagnosed with autism at the age of 44, and struggled in his teens.

Environmentalist Chris Packham has said he “loathed himself” and thought he was “broken” as a teenager before he understood he had autism.

“So by the time I’d got to the beginning of my teens, and certainly into the early part of my 20s, my mental health issues were quite considerable. He said: “I know a few people now that I knew when I was diagnosed, and they say that it’s quite considerably changed me, I’m much more confident to talk about my needs, my incapacities, and the things that I can do better.

“And if that’s in a professional context, I would say ‘You know what, I’d rather not do that, because it won’t be good for me, it won’t be good for you, it won’t be good for us’.”

 

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