We are full-time personal assistants of two lads with learning difficulties. Our team— Nina, Mark, and Jay—are good friends, have similar sense of humour, and always help each other. We come from different cultural, ethnic, and economical backgrounds.
We have worked together for eight years, which is an accomplishment in itself, and know the needs of the lads in our care. We treat these lads with respect and love. We have had lots of ups and downs in past years together; this has made us stronger as a unit. Our team of carers, along with the lads, have spent a lot of time together at family events, weddings, meetings, and various holidays.
The lads in our care have made lots of friends throughout the years. We have come up with nicknames for the lads, “Big Ben” as he is very strong. “Officer Andy” as he likes to report everybody to the police. Nina, Mark, and Jay are personal assistants of Officer Andy and Big Ben. Nina is “Captain”. She likes to have order everywhere. Mark is “Wheeler”. As he loves to ride his bicycle and Jay is known as “Play Dough”. This is because he tries to please everybody.
Together, we are the “Perfect Difference Five. The staff indulges the lads and help make their lives—real and imaginary—come true. As the lads suffer from forever young syndrome and are children trapped in grown-up bodies, other people think Big Ben and Officer Andy act strange sometimes, but the staff know that the way they behave is perfectly normal.
Adventures of Perfect Difference 5 Description:
My book is fiction cartoon stories placed on reality day to day life of two young lads with learning difficulties and their three carers from our Calendar-Diary. All together we are Perfect Difference 5. In the book you can laugh and forget real life and travel into a planet called Planet Parklands. Captain, Wheeler, Play Dough, Big Ben and Officer Andy are five different people that live on Planet Parklands.
We will be very happy to see you visiting us on Planet Parklands. Talented Mark makes brilliant illustration with his sketches for the cartoons in my book “Adventures of Perfect Difference 5” and Xenia Brettell’s book “Life on Planet Parklands”.
I write a short comedy stories about situations which are connected with our Perfect Difference 5, which would attract adult humour and I wanted people to burst out with laughter. Laughter is a great aspect of life and that’s what I want people to enjoy. It does not matter if you have disabilities or problems in life everyone deserves to enjoy life and I hope my book can bring them some joy. I always wanted to make a difference in people’s lives, to make our world a better happier place to live.
The idea of this book is to make people happy, to smile, to laugh and accept each other as we are, with all our differences and imperfections. We are all in our own Perfect Difference, live on the same Planet and deserve to be treated equally.
