Evan Porter - Essex

HOPE PROGRAMME FOR RESILIENCE

SHAW TRUST

I am on the Autistic spectrum and have a condition PDD-NOS*. I tend to feel emotions as colours.

We go to the Isle of Wight a lot as a family.

We visited a place that was very hard to get to and was once the sight of a terrible plane crash in 1962. I spent some time there with my Mum, who is a photographer.

The whole area seemed to be tinged with such sadness and sorrow, despite being aesthetically beautiful. Just as we were leaving, I saw a rainbow appear over where the plane had crashed and took a photo on my phone.

It reminded me that although there was a terrible loss of life, that there were heroes that day and some passengers were saved thanks to them.

*Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified - its defining features are significant challenges in social and language development