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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

‘My autism made me feel like I had no hope, but now I help to save lives’

A London ambulance medic who was placed in 27 different foster homes as a child only received his diagnosis for autism as an adult because he never lived in one place long enough to be assessed when he was growing up.

James Sweeney, 37, moved around 25 different foster families and two children homes across the Midlands during his childhood.

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