When it became clear that my young son was heading towards an autism diagnosis I went through pretty much every emotion in existence.
Fear for his future, reassurance that I wasn’t imagining it, I wasn’t going mad and there really was Something.
And maybe that Something could be fixed, if only I could figure out how.
Of course I rapidly realised that nothing was – or should be – fixable, but you live and learn.
That desire to fix things is paramount in the character of Alison in a BBC’s new six part drama, The A Word, which… Read the full story