‘Learning about my son’s autism helped me seek my own diagnosis’ – Actor Brian Mulvey

Actor Brian Mulvey always felt different but it wasn’t until his son Kit's diagnosis that the 47-year-old began putting the pieces together. He reveals more about growing up, acting and finally feeling more comfortable in his own skin

Brian Mulvey on finding out he had autism through his son's diagnosis

Liadán Hynes

It wasn’t until he became aware that his son Kit was autistic several years ago, that Brian Mulvey (47), began to wonder if he too was autistic.

“The more my wife Jenny and I read on it, the more we looked at it, just the ­clinical aspects of it with our son Kit were exactly mirrored in me,” Brian, an actor who appeared in Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them, says.