The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Getting an A for my English A-level. I’m dyslexic; it was never detected and I was written off as scatty and lazy. This proved everyone wrong, including me.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2017 source ↗
Professionally, becoming a relative success in a job that I love; and personally, helping to raise two wonderful children.
Not giving up on myself. As a gay black man things are, at times, more difficult.
I was the subject of a Celeb cartoon in Private Eye. I’ve a copy hanging in the downstairs toilet.
My relationship.
Utterly relentless warmth and peace.
A walk-on part for my mum in Les Misérables. It was in a charity auction. She always dreamed of being in a West End show.
I’m convinced heartache almost killed me a few years ago.
Teachers who recognise that each child is different.
A miniature pet elephant, one that is no bigger than a guinea pig.
Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.
Ed Harris, Bear Grylls, Gareth Bale, Reece Shearsmith, Fatima Bhutto, Eddie Izzard
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