Transcripts

To make editing easier on us, we decided to transcript all of our interviews. You do not hear every word said on the documentary (though you get most of it) as we didn't have enough time from all of the interviews we had, we picked the best bits out.
We thought we would put up the transcripts so you may read them if you like:

Graham on Comic Bagging and Delivery:

Graham Interview: As much as I love this job some of the jobs are pretty laborious, got a lot of comics to bag and tag. I have a lot to do here, but it has to be done, because if they don’t get bagged they get knackered and these collectors are fussy individuals, if they’re knackered they don’t want them, so this is actually pretty key. I probably have to bag between 5 and 6 hundred comics a week, so sitting here doing this for 40 minutes is not the most fun in the world. There’s not much about this job I don’t like, so there’s nothing wrong with a few things that are set to try us. You have to watch out for air at the top, because what happens is as people rummage through the boxes, that air bashes on the top of the comic and therefore damages that comic

Graham on Aspergers and how he's changed:

Graham: One of the biggest changes for me, was that it wasn’t just a job change,  I changed my vocation in life. This has helped me change, now, I suffer from Asperger’s, and one of the things I don’t do, is I don’t have an empathy with other peoples emotions. So general interaction and day to day life was often problematic for me and my defence, my coping mechanism, was sort of copying as a strategy, I worked in pubs, so I would emulate other peoples behaviour. When you work in a pub you probably don’t encounter the nicest people in the world, so my whole life and other persona was based around snippets of other people, most of whom weren’t particularly pleasant and given a choice I wouldn’t give time of day to. Now, when I took over here I was with my partner for 3 years and we’d just had our 2^nd son, and because of the traits I’d taken on board I don’t think I was a particularly nice person as such. The one thing about being in the shop is I can just be who I am, because so many of the people that come in the shop are like minded or suffer from autistic spectral disorders or who will just take me as I am even if they don’t have similarities in myself. It just makes life easier, I’m more relaxed, I’m much happier when I come to work, when I leave work which therefore translates to much happier in my home life because if you’re happier with everything in life, its easier to float through and enjoy things. My kid would be the first to say my biggest change was coming here, obviously its kind of cool having a Dad who has a comic shop and I’m sure that gives me brownie points with friends at various points in time. I’d like to say the biggest change is its made me a better husband and father.