{"id":2884,"date":"2016-04-18T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/irish-boy-with-autism-explains-what-its-like-to-live-with-his-condition\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T15:27:00","slug":"irish-boy-with-autism-explains-what-its-like-to-live-with-his-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/irish-boy-with-autism-explains-what-its-like-to-live-with-his-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish boy with autism explains what it's like to live with his condition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To mark National Autism Awareness Month<\/a>, an Irish man decided to carry out an interview with his nephew Sean<\/a> \u2014 who has been diagnosed with Atypical Autism \u2014 and publish it on Snapchat.<\/p>\n

In the video above \u2014 which has been shared on Facebook approaching 2,000 times at the time of writing \u2014 Sean explains his condition, how it’s affected him and how he thinks people without autism can help those who do have it.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: 13 apps that support and empower the autistic community<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“Stuff like loud noises and loud music just really get to me,” explains Sean. “Stuff like personal space… it makes me a bit uncomfortable when people are too close to me. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To mark National Autism Awareness Month, an Irish man decided to carry out an interview with his nephew Sean \u2014 who has been diagnosed with Atypical Autism \u2014 and publish it on Snapchat. In the video above \u2014 which has … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2120,2118,2119,2121,735],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-autism","tag-autism-awareness-month","tag-boy","tag-irish","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}