Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 October 2022 source ↗
Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.
Generally? Hurting someone’s feelings. Specifically? Being kidnapped while on vacation.
Endless vomiting. That comes from my emetophobia, which is a huge part of my OCD.
Both my grandmother and my mother got dementia. My grandmother has passed away. My mother is in a home. Dementia is my biggest fear because it robs you of the very thing that makes life special.
Doing the spacewalk to fix a solar panel at the furthest edge of the ISS. You have no idea if you are going to get a chance to do a spacewalk when you go into space. I was fortunate. There’s a real juxtaposition between floating, completely serene and calm, looking down at Earth and the universe, and being aware that you are in this hostile environment.
My happiest moments are when I am wild camping with my family in Scotland and cooking on a fire by a river.
Shyness. It really held me back when I was younger, and I wish it hadn’t. I do a better job of not being so shy these days.
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