Greetings from Wrexham: Paul Mullin recounts his son’s autism diagnosis in an emotional story.
The celebrity frontman of the team’s football team gave fans a glimpse into his personal life.
After his son Albi was diagnosed with autism, Wrexham AFC star Paul Mullin claimed he can’t lay in bed at night without feeling terrible. When the striker told his devoted fans that he was a “happy and healthy boy… no different from anyone else” in January, Albi’s diagnosis was made public.
WalesOnline reported that in the most recent episode of the Disney+ series Welcome to Wrexham, Mullin spoke more extensively about his family life. The 28-year-old claimed that during Albi’s first year of life, “he was hitting all the milestones.”
He started walking nine and a half to ten months before I did. Everything was fine up to the age of a year, and he was duplicating sounds, clapping his hands, singing songs, and doing motions.
Albi then began to regress. He stopped looking at me, his mother, or anyone else for that matter. He did not mimic. He stopped attempting to create noise.
Albi was able to receive a diagnosis, and Mullin and his wife Mollie were able to make arrangements for when he starts school, but the Wrexham star acknowledged that he still goes to bed every night feeling guilty. Albi’s wellbeing and health are “the most important thing” in his life, he continued, adding that “football comes second” to those things.
He enjoys every day and is a cheerful young man. makes me happy,” he added. He is nonverbal and doesn’t speak, but he might as well speak because I am fully aware of all of his requirements and the exact moment they arise. He is a delight. I wouldn’t trade him for anything.
I adore it when he turns around and simply says, “Dada,” because it makes me cry every time.
The documentary team then asked the striker if he would want to take a break as he started to appear clearly upset. Mullin kept his composure and continued, saying, “I’m fine, it happens all the time anyway, I’m used to it now.”
In a touching scene with club co-owner Ryan Reynolds later in the episode, the former Morecambe striker played a video of Albi counting to ten, which he had “out of the blue” learnt to do. He was simply counting the fruit in the fruit bowl while we were sitting in the kitchen at my mother’s house, he said.
“I had never heard him do it before, so I simply asked him, ‘What the f***, where’s that coming from?'” Now, all he does is recognise the numbers.
The actor expressed to Mullin how moved he was by the video, saying, “That’s so good however. God, oh God. Then, like with every child, it just gets insane.
The second installment of the new series also features Millie Tipping, a Wrexham supporter who is autistic. Before giving Mullin a gift bag to give to Albi as a reminder that autism “is a spectrum disorder,” she demonstrated how the club’s “quiet zone,” where fans with sensory needs can watch a game with conditions like noise-canceling headphones and a regular routine in place, had altered her life.
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