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Chris Packham to explore his Asperger Syndrome in new BBC documentary

AGXStarseed

AGXStarseed

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The Springwatch presenter was diagnosed with Asperger's in 2005 at the age of 44

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Springwatch presenter Chris Packham is to provide an insight into living with Asperger Syndrome in a new BBC documentary, set to air on BBC2 later this year.

The one-off special will follow Packham – who was diagnosed with Asperger's in 2005, at the age of 44 – in his home life and see him interview the world’s leading experts on autism research, as well as a family who have made the decision to put their son through controversial treatment to ‘cure’ his autism.

Last year, Packham opened about his personal struggle with the condition for the first time in his memoir Fingers in the Sparkle Jar.

Speaking to RadioTimes.com, he acknowledged the issues that the diagnosis had helped to explain. “It’s that that underlines all the other problems,” he said. This includes behavioural “issues” such as obsession, isolation and the commitment to truth that makes him such a controversial conservationist.


Source: Chris Packham to explore his Asperger Syndrome in new BBC documentary
 
I love how chris packham is so deficated to nature....! Didnt know he had aspergers, that explains his obsession and commitment to wildlife then....! The mans so passionate about what he does....!
 
I'll watch this, but just reading about a family trying to 'cure' their son of autism makes me angry, so god knows what I'll be like watching it.
 
i am probably going to be odd one out here but i never liked chris packham and ive always watched nature shows,then i found out he had asperger syndrome several years ago,which made sense to me but i still dont like the way he comes across on screen,i feel he comes across as arrogant but that may be his intelligence and passion coming through,as what happens with many aspies.
 
xudo said:
I'll watch this, but just reading about a family trying to 'cure' their son of autism makes me angry, so god knows what I'll be like watching it.
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I was going to say similar about this so called "cure" too and I also disagree with it, but to be fair to the documentary, if they show all sides of the debate, E.g. arguments for and against without any prejudice, then they will have done a reasonable job (we will see). If the debate is covered correctly then I believe most viewers will believe that there is no true "cure" and that this is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future, but I also hope the documentary questions whether Aspergers is something that they should try to "cure" even if it was one day possible? Learning to cope better with certain unwanted traits is of course possible today and that's positive, but that's not a cure and there are also often positive aspects of Aspergers which you definitely wouldn't want to cure. Would you have wanted to "cure" Eisenstein so he wasn't obsessed with his special interest for instance?
 
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