Yes, I really enjoyed it too! I really liked how candid and honest he was, and we got to see a quite different Chris Packham than the one on Springwatch etc where he's very professional at all times -- in this, he was very revealing about his vulnerable side.
That ABA school was a nightmare! I was actually really uncomfortable just watching that part -- the environement was overwhelming even just seeing it on TV! I was shocked that a school full of severely affected autistic children was so packed with overstimulation, or is that, too, part of the ABA? It was nightmarish to me and I wasn't even there in person. So much noise, color, activity going on, and all the TOUCHING!! !! ! Everyone's different but when I was a kid I had meltdowns like that and the last thing I wanted was for someone to keep trying to manhandle me the way they were doing to that little girl. Even today as an adult, watching that, I was sitting here going out loud: "Stop keeping on touching her!!" There was a lot of people just keeping on touching those children and to me that would have been a huge sensory trigger.
That part made me quite angry.
I got emotional when Chris got emotional about the death of his kestrel. I also strongly relate to that kind of hanging onto big emotional events, and finding it hard to get over things and not still be affected by them. He's clearly still affected by that early loss, and I so related to that. It's almost a kind of combination of perseveration and PTSD.
There was so much I related to in Chris' experiences and outlook. I'm about the same age as him and came from the same era of being overlooked for spectrum suspicions while still struggling with it as an unnamed thing every day.
I also really liked how he and that CEO guy in the tech industry agreed how just a bit more leeway from society would go a long way to people on the spectrum having a bit more of a chance not to have to deal with quite so many challenges that put us over into areas of failure instead of succeeding in something.
That was exactly what some of us had been saying here on WP earlier today!!