I liked this letter in response to David Mitchell's article in last weeks Guardian.
Our daughter, now 32, has a learning disability and epilepsy, and has been described as "in the autistic spectrum", so I can sympathise with David Mitchell and his family. But I never found the Italy/Holland analogy useful at all; I felt more as though we had landed in 1970s Belfast with a mission to convert Ian Paisley to Roman Catholicism. Naoki Higashida's book, however, is wonderful and I thank David and his wife for bringing it to a wider audience. It should be read by all who are affected by autism.
Barbara Williams
Sparsholt, Oxon