Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street (2025)
• July 4th, 2025 • 0h 40min
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Born in 1948, Peter Street struggled at school with epilepsy and illiteracy in Bolton, Lancashire, and, later in life, as a slaughterman, a gravedigger and a war poet. At 66 years old he was then diagnosed with autism, and his world changed forever.
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