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It can still make me pretty distraught, and I can still make the mistake of equating this with how much he cares. It was about five years before he told me he has autism, and that was only because I asked. I had googled the conundrum of his absolute devotion to me and his daily lack of empathy. Instead, he gradually agreed. It has helped me that I had an amazing relationship with my father, who died five years before I met Chris, and was very like him. My dad was everything except conventional — a very charismatic, kaleidoscopic, colourful man… and extraordinarily difficult.

He was never diagnosed with any form of autism, but there are parallels. It was less destructive than I feared. He coped by pouring everything into Scratchy. But he will have nothing left to love when Scratchy goes.

Charlotte added: "It was about five years before he told me he has autism, and that was only because I asked. It felt like I didn't know who I was with. He hadn't told me because he thought he had the techniques to hide it.

Is Chris Packham married? Chris Packham girlfriend: Chris and Charlotte are reported to have met at the zoo she runs in the Isle of Wight. Image: PA Images. Chris Packham shocks Springwatch viewers after disagreement with Megan. Charlotte added: "Then in Chris did a voiceover on a programme that was filmed at the zoo.

Chris is very close to his stepdaughter Megan , who is a zoologist with a degree in zoology from the University of Liverpool, and appears on TV alongside her stepdad. He previously told Radio Times : "I consider it one of the great privileges of my life to play a part in her upbringing, and would happily throw myself in front of a train to protect her.

It doesn't bother me one bit that she doesn't share my genes. In fact, I do not now — and never have had — any desire whatsoever to reproduce myself. I said to her: 'You figure out what you want to say and I'll fill in around you. I was there as a support mechanism, really, and wasn't needed.

She believes in what she's got to say, she's excited by the science and committed to the environmental aspects of it.

Megan, whose mother Jo McCubbin was in a relationship with Chris for ten years, added: "I was slightly nervous, but I met Chris when I was two years old so have always grown up around film crews. I was with my stepdad, and who better to learn from than him? He's a role model of mine professionally and it's great that he happens to be my stepdad as well.

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