She's 14 but you may have noticed she doesn't necessarily communicate like you'd expect a 14 year old to.
She's diagnosed autistic and we get the highest level Disability Living Allowance benefit for her, along with Mrs Chopley getting Carer's Allowance. (Carer's Allowance basically acknowledging that Mrs Chopley's 'job' is caring for Jnr, in that she does it a hell of a lot cheaper than it'd cost our government to provide care, but Mrs Chopley can't work as a result.)
(In the old parlance Jnr would be classified as 'high functioning autistic' but they've moved away from that to simply calling it a spectrum disorder now.)
Things can certainly be challenging at times but I wouldn't change Jnr for the world, and she's taught me a lot about being a better, more tolerant person. She was very late with her speech but came on remarkably well thanks to the incredible support services we have here on the IOM.
I'm a big fan of the film 'The Abyss' by James Cameron from 1989, there's a really good line in that film where everyone's starting to lose their shit, and one of the main characters says to her ex-husband, 'You have to look with better eyes than that'.
Jnr has given me better eyes.