My nephew will come home and tell me what he’s learned at school that day, and it’s just brilliant.”įor Poe, her autism diagnosis happened completely by chance, and years too late. They bring the world to me in a way, and I love that. “We have an extension, so I am really lucky to live with her and her kids. “I am still quite isolated, but my sister’s family has moved in,” she says. It was the first time Poe, a self-taught artist and writer who was diagnosed with autism at the age of 21, had ever managed to get the upper hand over her anxiety, but as she writes in her memoir How to be Autistic, beating anxiety once doesn’t mean it will never rear its head again, and even after winning a prestigious art prize and doing TV interviews, Poe still experiences days when “depression causes a near physical ache”.ĭespite her isolation, Poe has found an alternative way of connecting with the world, thanks to the support of her family. Instead, she wondered whether she could Photoshop herself into the wedding photos at a later date, until she finally managed to beat her anxiety at the eleventh hour and made it to the ceremony. Even on the morning of her sister’s wedding, Poe sat in her bedroom dressed up in a gold dress, with curled hair and painstakingly applied makeup, but she was adamant she couldn’t go. Charlotte Amelia Poe only leaves the house once or twice a month.
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