Chris lives in a cottage in the New Forest and was not formally diagnosed with Asperger's until 2005.His fascination with the animals and the natural world paved the way to his television career but was to an extent fuelled by the obsessive aspect that comes from Asperger's, he said.Chris previously told Radio Times that he is content now with who he is as a person.The Springwatch star divulged: “If there were a cure for Asperger’s, I don’t know if I’d want it. “Humanity has prospered because of people with autistic traits. “Without them, we wouldn’t have put man on the Moon or be running software programs. “If we wiped out all the autistic people on the planet, I don’t know how much longer the human race would last,” he added.Chris has.
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