24-05-2025
- General
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong charity stages disco to help neurodiverse adults feel ‘what it's like to party'
Eric Wong Hok-pan loves buses. He is familiar with many of the routes in his home city of Hong Kong and knows what year some vehicles were built.
Wong is particularly passionate about vintage buses – especially when it comes to photographing them.
'This one is old, built in 1998,' says Wong, proudly showing off his vast collection of bus photos on his Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
Wong's hobby recently took a bad turn when he was bullied by a group of teenage boys while photographing his favourite subjects.
Eric Wong Hok-pan and his mother, Amy Chung, at Hong Kong charity Love 21 Foundation's headquarters in San Po Kong. Photo: Kylie Knott
Wong has Down's syndrome, a genetic condition caused by unusual cell division resulting in an extra copy of chromosome 21 that affects appearance and the ability to learn.
It was not Wong's first experience with bullying, but the abuse left him traumatised and dampened his enthusiasm for photography.
