Shappi Khorsandi
At the age of 16 I was extremely shy and quiet. I had very, very, very long, very thick curly hair that I hid behind. I was self-conscious about my weight. I couldn’t talk to boys easily. I just sort of hung out with a few girlfriends and went to a lot of indie discos. I only got four GCSEs because I had undiagnosed ADHD and dyslexia, but I found a – complicated – route to studying drama at college.
Though I was shy I was very determined to do that.
Or duffing people up in an alleyway. We didn’t have the vocabulary we have now to describe the much more subtle racism that even the people who were harming us weren’t aware they were doing. It was either you were called the P-word or you weren’t. It was a very difficult thing to
