Petition updateOur beautiful daughter, Claire aged 20 is autistic, and on Monday 10th November 2014 her mental health section was taken off, and she is now home from the medium secure unit 5 hours away from where we live, and home with us her family, in Swansea.Thank you so so so much. 6400 as at 9.45am on 4/9/14

cath dyerSwansea, WLS, United Kingdom
4 Sept 2014
Our main aim is to get Claire off the section 3. Whilst she is still on it, we are banging our heads against a brick wall.
Our poor girl is on the phone to us at least 6 times a day, crying and constantly asking when can she come home. She will have been in Brighton 6 weeks tomorrow, and as time goes on she is finding it harder and harder.
Unfortunately, skype is still not set up so she has not been able to have contact with her deaf sister, Nicola, after they had spent nearly every day together prior to the move, shopping, doing girly stuff and supporting each other, apart from the 2 hour weekly visits. We, and her brother are able to speak with her on the phone, which helps her know that we are still here and supporting her, and doing all we possibly can, and would have her home here with us immediately.
Claire is sleeping a lot trying to wish the time away.
She is 20 years old, and yet as she says the only choice she has in life at the moment is what to have for dinner. That's it.
She is feeling totally abandoned, lost, lonely, homesick and has no idea when she will come home again.
To having gone from being home here nearly every day, even the day prior to the move she was at the Liberty Stadium, having her glasses tightened, chatting with friends in Swansea town centre, to being sent to Brighton the following day is cruel beyond words, and so upsetting.
The Race for Life she did on July 27th seems like another lifetime away now, and she is missing out so much on family life, the community, her friends, her routine activities - trampolining in Cardiff, Swimming in the LC2, swimming with the NAS group, shopping, dog walking Jonjo daily, seeing her grandparents, interacting with her brother and sister daily, eating out in restaurants --- ALL WITH US HER FAMILY.
She has already missed out on seeing the Swans with us against Villarreal when we had a box booked for her, and a friends' 50th birthday celebrations, and just being here.
As a family we are all being torn apart, and Andrew, 15, is back in school ready for his GCSE year, and worrying already about travelling so far on a Sunday only to have to be in school at 8.20 on a Monday morning - as he said "It's my only chance to get to see her though." Why should he have to suffer not being able to see his sister apart from for 2 hours on a Sunday?
Thanks all for all your help and continued support.
All Claire wants is to come home, and all we want is for our daughter to be happy, safe, and where she wants to be - which is home.
That is all she wants out of life. Is that too much to ask for?
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