‘It’s not an illness. It’s just how I am.” “I want to make friends but I just don’t know how.” “I always felt like I was in a dark corner of a library that no-one went in.”
These are some of the ways girls at Limpsfield Grange School describe their autism in a remarkable YouTube video that has been viewed almost 30,000 times.
The only state boarding school in the UK specialising in girls with autism, Limpsfield Grange in Oxted, Surrey, has 75 girls aged between 11 and 16 on its roll. Many of them have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and suffer from “high and persistent levels of anxiety”.
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