Looking Back At My Life
    
For people like me, and a lot more, you know, people were frightened of us. So in them days they said OK, there's nowhere for you, you get shut away in the big institutions. If people are different then other people get frightened. I still see it. People are frightened of people like me, and a lot more, because we're different.

I go into the schools now, and talk to the children, and I've been invited back to the schools, so for the next three weeks I'm off into the schools. But, you know, they were frightened, they even told me, the children. They're frightened of people what are different.

I got into the system very early. It was only because I had the learning disability, they've found that out now. I was born at the wrong time. Because I always say to the children, if I was young again I would have liked to have gone to the school, and learnt all the things I don't know now. The only thing is, when you start going in places like that, they label you and that's it.

St Lawrence's was all I knew for years, it was all I knew until 15 or 16 years ago. When you're in there you don't know anything else. There was nice people like Eva, she was nice, I got on with her. You had your doubts about some of them but in the end you knew they had to do the work, so you can't, it's not their fault, it's just they were there.