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The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗
I’d change my mindset and not be so hard on myself, and impart the knowledge that other people’s intentions aren’t always as well-meaning as my own.
I would have thought more about exercise and a healthy lifestyle in my 20s, 30s and 40s.
I would have spent more time with my parents. I did see them often, but you don’t realise how much you’ll miss someone or something until it’s gone.
I would take away fear.
In a photo album of just one family.
I spent my life searching for family. I travelled around the world to look each one of them in the eye. Unfortunately, but understandably, for most of them, I am their biggest disappointment.
Also my most triumphant: 2017 at the Royal Court. Julie Hesmondhalgh reads my psychologist’s report over two hours. Every excruciating intimate word of it. Extreme verbatim theatre. One night only.
Believing in, even admiring, people who refuse to believe in me, and not believing people who do.
I made a suicide attempt at 12 or 13 years old.
That I can’t write.
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