If I could have one wish, it would be to look ‘normal’ for a day. To know what it feels like to walk down the street without turning heads. For me, it requires constant bravery to leave the house each morning, because I never know what reactions I’m going to get.
Most people carry some sort of trauma and we’ve all had terrible moments in our lives. But most people can choose how much they reveal. My trauma is literally written on my face for everyone to see.
The course of my life was altered one April morning in 1988, in my home town Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, when I was just two years old.
