The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Appearing angry when I’m not angry.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗
My distractibility, diminishing memory, and capacity for sustained concentration. My English master once said I had the brain of a butterfly. I feel that 40 years later, I’ve evolved into Dory from Finding Nemo.
I talk over people all the time.
Obsequiousness.
Catastrophising.
Loving, odd, playful. Jeepers, I’ve described myself like a damaged rescue puppy.
I feel no shame about not reading a book. That’s silly.
A better knee and better lungs.
“Sorry, I don’t mean to insult you, but did you know you look a bit like that actress Siobhán McSweeney?”
Politics. And casting directors.
As Tilda Swinton in a fat suit.
Malala Yousafzai, Mary Tyler Moore, Cathy Rigby, Martha Stewart, Angela Hartnett, Bonnie Raitt
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