North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

Nurse Lin Fidgin has published a children’s book, inspired by her own journey to self-acceptance as a woman with autism.

Lin, a nurse at the University Hospital of North Tees, wrote and illustrated ‘Bess of Clara Vale’. The story draws on Lin’s personal experience of autism and describes what it feels like to be a little ‘out of sync’ with the world around her.

Lin said: “I wanted to write the books I wish I had as a child. I felt so different to everyone else around me, but had no mirror to see myself reflected or to help me understand why I wasn’t like my peers. “

If I can help make education about autism and neurodiversity accessible to those who need it most, then it can only be a good thing. I want to make a difference.”

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