Dr Paul Rimmer, an expert in prebiotic chemistry, attended an Evensong service at Cambridge’s King’s College Chapel on Father’s Day with his two sons, one of whom, Tristan, is autistic. It is a family tradition to go to the service but was the first time Tristan had attended.
Dr Paul told Premier that his son “waited patiently in line for about 30 minutes before we were able to go in. When we walked in he really loved looking at the ceiling – the top of the church is very, very beautiful and he enjoyed looking at that and when the singing started he really enjoyed the service”.
“Often when he enjoys things he laughs and he calls out and sometimes he does this fairly loudly and we were going through the service and he was doing this and an usher approached us and said he was the disturbing other people at the service and asked us to leave,” he explained.
“I informed the usher that my son is autistic and that this is the way that he is. I was told that this was still too distracting and that we had to go.
“I was not aware that anyone was bothered by what he was doing”.
When asked how he felt at that point, he replied: “I was angry and upset. I was sad.”
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In what he describes a “misunderstanding in the heat of the moment” between him and the usher, he was under the impression that the Dean had instructed the usher to ask them to…
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