Live Radio Show With David Baum

I was born on May 8 1958 (yes I’m that old), my parents were Ruth & Ronnie Baum and I have an older sister Genene & a younger brother Martin. I grew up in Temple Fortune, which is around 1 mile north of London and around 3 miles south of where<br />Richard Selwyn-Barnett grew up.<br />As you can read in the article I had a fabulous childhood. While not academic (possibly<br />because I am on the autism scale) & even though I enjoyed cricket, football, swimming,<br />cycling at 9-10, I was placed on a 1,800 day diet by Great Ormond St, probably due<br />to being a drug addict, my drug of choice was and still is chocolate & cake.<br />What I didn’t understand at the time & neither did it seems my parents was I was on<br />the autism spectrum and had problems grasping certain facts. However by losing<br />weight I found out how much life improved for me at school, so much so that in my last year at primary school I was captain of the tug of war (not because I was big), made<br />a prefect, apparently in both cases I was an inspiration and won a prize as the most<br />improved student.