"So things are pretty tough for you right now," I said.
"Not really, apart from that, I'm fine."
We should all marvel at individuals with such fortitude and resilience. And we should consider who may have helped them along the way to developed and sustain such attributes. In many cases, no doubt, it is parents who have done the donkey work, and perhaps schools. In this case, it was youth work.
The individual in question is now in his thirties. Wheelchair-bound, with cerebral palsy, his future looked bleak as he approached school-leaving age with no qualifications and with an (understandably) over-protective mother. Neither mother nor son had any real idea what he might do.
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