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The difficulties around an autism diagnosis in later life
When Anna Wilson鈥檚 father, the man who has calmed her mother for over 40 years, becomes ill with cancer, things become extremely difficult. Her mother has always been 鈥榓 little eccentric鈥� but in her seventies she becomes increasingly anxious and manic. Anna joins Jane to discuss her memoir, A Place for Everything, in which she talks about the difficulties of getting proper help for her mother, her mother鈥檚 late diagnosis of autism at the age of 72, her father鈥檚 illness and death and what it was like to care for her parents in their final years.
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