One Tight Place To Another
To those of you that don’t know me, my name is Jamie and I’m giving this presentation for Autism Awareness Week (2021). I was born into circumstances way beyond the control or understanding of a child. My mother had me when she was not much older than a child herself, leaving me to be raised singlehandedly by my grandmother. My grandmother worked as a cleaner and rented rooms out to lodgers just to get by. Having no father around, I often found myself looking up to some of the lodgers like surrogate father figures. When I was about 9 years old, I’d grown particularly close to one of the lodgers from a neighbouring county. Our local team, ‘The Wolfe Tones’, were set to play the lodgers home team and my class at school were tasked with painting pictures of our team winning. But me being me, had other ideas. I was determined to paint the other team winning. I didn’t care that my picture wouldn’t be displayed along with all the others. I was content with simply taking it home to