The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Driven, sensitive and playful.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 May 2026 source ↗
Content. Cheerful. Appreciative.
Not very concise.
Passionate, mum, green.
Natural, caring, thoughtful.
As someone with integrity.
Being accepted for who you are but also being encouraged to continue to grow.
Careless cruelty.
To keep trying to listen to yourself.
Not playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I am a huge Brando fan and a big Tennessee Williams fan and it’s a part I would love to have a go at. It’s possible I still could but I’m too old, really.
My brother Joe, he’s nine years older than me.
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