My father claimed I could read before I went to school. I sucked up knowledge and read the Children’s Britannica Encyclopaedia from cover to cover when I was eight. Anne Hegerty Read Quote
Back then, people thought if you could talk you didn’t have autism. I was just seen as this slightly odd child. I saw another therapist aged 12, and another in my early 30s. Anne Hegerty Read Quote
It’s taken me a long time to work out what people are thinking and what they’re expecting. I am naturally solitary, and I’m comfortable with that. Anne Hegerty Read Quote
When you’ve grown up always knowing that there’s something that seemed to be different about you from most people – and not being able to understand until my mid-forties that what we were talking about here was autism – I’ve had to learn an awful let about myself and what I can and can’t do and what I can or can’t cope with. Anne Hegerty Read Quote
Just by chance, I happened to meet someone who told me there was a high level quizzing circuit. Anne Hegerty Read Quote
I was a pretty good academic proofreader, I just wasn’t good at keeping up with the paperwork. Anne Hegerty Read Quote
On New Year’s Day 2008 I had two bailiffs turn up on my doorstep and because I had so little income I had not been paying bills, and I respect the concept of paying bills, I’m very much in favour of it, I just couldn’t quite get it together. Anne Hegerty Read Quote
I am pretty sedentary and I spend most of my time sitting on my bum reading things on the internet! It will do me good to have to exercise a little bit more. Anne Hegerty Read Quote
I sort of managed to establish in my life that relationships aren’t really a thing I can handle. Anne Hegerty Read Quote
