Springwatch presenter Chris Packham has urged people to speak more openly about autism as he told of the positive feedback he had received after writing about his life with Asperger Syndrome.
The TV nature expert has filmed a one-off documentary about his condition and last year wrote a book, Fingers In The Sparkle Jar: A Memoir, detailing his experiences since being diagnosed in 2005, at the age of 44.
Commenting on readers’ responses to his book, he told the Express newspaper: “It has been very positive actually. I think a lot of people have been very kind and flattering and they’ve said that they imagined that it must have taken some degree of bravery to speak so openly about it.”
