English naturalist and Countryfile presenter Chris Packham is left in tears during the BBC Two documentary, Inside Our Autistic Minds. In the two-part series, Chris, who was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome in 2015, meets other autistic people and helps them create short films to reveal to their family and friends what’s really going on inside their minds.
The first episode on Tuesday, February 14 sees Chris meet radio legend Ken Bruce's son Murray, who had no real form of communication until he was nine years old. The 20-year-old, who lives in Oxfordshire, communicates by typing on a tablet.
After Chris asks Murray to come up with script ideas for his film, he is astonished by the reply. Chris reads an email in which the young man describes feelings of loneliness. “I was alone in my world of deep and troubled pining for a person to hear me. I would wonder if that day would ever come,” he writes and Chris chokes up.
