see her, and she'd had she'd had this kind of complete personality transplant. And the only
reason I went to see her was I was going to an antique fair up in [Place] and she was at the
[Hospital], and, and um, it you know it was just a bus ride away or even could even walk
there really if, if you were feeling energetic. And I thought “oh god I suppose I'd better go
and see her”. And she and she and she greeted me in quite a friendly way and even
introduced me to the nurse, and um, couldn't, couldn't believe it. And anyway during that
period, f- for a week, couple of weeks, (mm) she actually did apologise for having been so
horrible to me. And I really wish I'd asked her why she was, but you know it was just it
was so unexpected I sort of muttered “oh, that's alright”. So I missed the opportunity.
Participant classified as preoccupied__________________________________________________
Q6. Um, it was usually, just go to my room [2] and [2] u- read a book or, or watch um,
watch television, t- try to hide myself away from it all, because I was somewhere where I
knew I was secure._________________________________________________________________
Q11. Um, w- w- well um, well I think as I said, because just they were, they were very,
they were very concerned all about, all about n-, all about the sheltered life I was living,
and I wasn’t like m-, [laugh] like other kids that was m-, and, u-, and they were they were
worried in case I might become very isolated as I got older. [3]__________________________
Participant classified as unresolved (secondary classification as preoccupied)___________
Q6. Erm, I'd pull my hair out or hit my head on the wall. And um yeah I'd pull my hair out
or hit my head on the wall, or cry, or all of them._________________________________________
Q11. Well, they didn't know I was autistic but they they knew I was special, and my mum
always said she had a feeling I was autistic. But why they behaved the way they did was, I
think that when I was little, [2] you know, I was cute and as I was got older I became a
teenager, which in- which was which they saw as a monster maybe. You know once I
became a teenager they said that I became more difficult and my behaviour went
unmanageable so maybe they managed it in the only way they knew how, who knows. [2]
Participant classified as unresolved (secondary classification as preoccupied)___________
Q6. [5] Um [12] pretend I wasn’t crying. [3] And I'd get away if I possibly could so I
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