Edouard Cousyn’s fight to be independent

If the 24-year-old autistic boy is packing his suitcase with his mother, it’s not to go on vacation. Edouard Cousin has just obtained a place in an adapted residence near Lille (North) and is about to live alone for the first time in his life. “We went to visit the apartment, he opened all the cupboards, he appropriated the place”, says Valerie Cousyn, Edward’s mother. Lhe France 2 journalists have been following Edouard for more than fifteen years. Small, he could not manage his violence did not speak and slept very little.

However, the school agrees to keep her, and year after year, the young autistic learns to control himself. He goes through internships in catering, obtains a CDI in part-time kitchen assistant in a brasserie in Lille (Nord). Significant progress, and hope for his parents. And Edouard’s parents were right to believe it. After three years of waiting, their son is going to move into an apartment, and it’s up to him to choose the furniture and the decoration.