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Danny Briggs: The Family That Changed My Life

Danny Briggs, the Blast’s all-time leading wicket-taker, on how he balances cricket with being a father to home-educated neurodivergent children. Interview with Adam Hopkins.

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Danny Briggs, the Blast’s all-time leading wicket-taker, on how he balances cricket with being a father to home-educated neurodivergent children. Interview with Adam Hopkins.

Family Life
My eldest son was diagnosed with autism around the age of five or six. My wife and I had an inkling from the age of three onwards. School didn’t suit him. He needed support just to go because he found it so hard.
He has pathological demand avoidance. In simple terms, any demand you put him under, asking him to brush his teeth, for example, has to be framed where he has the control. It’s about taking the pre...

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