{"id":604,"date":"2016-05-23T11:25:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T10:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/exploringdiagnosis\/?p=604"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:25:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T10:25:23","slug":"national-autistic-societys-lynx-centre-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/exploringdiagnosis\/2016\/05\/23\/national-autistic-societys-lynx-centre-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"National Autistic Society’s Lynx Centre Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working with plasticine is extremely comforting. Warming it up and rolling around in your fingers is probably something I could do for a good few hours. Slowly something emerges from the blob\u2026is that? yes I think it is! It\u2019s a horse\/badger\/dog! Here, we all sit around a big table, Sophie, Lizzie and me, and some of the guys who attend the National Autistic Society\u2019s Lynx Centre in Weston-super-Mare.<\/p>\n

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Over to one side Dom has set up a green screen with a live feed to a monitor so everyone can see the electronically created backgrounds. Dom changes them regularly. The backgrounds have been previously prepared based on the participant\u2019s interest. Every now and then someone gets up spontaneously and stands in front of the screen to watch themselves interacting with the background. One of the guys, Brian, is very interested, and I mean VERY interested, in trains and particularly St Pancras Station. He stands under the great curved roof on one of the platforms as if waiting for a train. He is lost in thought. There is a cavalcade of CITV characters to do a selfie with. There\u2019s the inside of the TARDIS and even a street in a town on the edge of some distant Star Wars galaxy.<\/p>\n\n\t\t