Obviously, you’ve never even been on social media, which is so unusual. Why is that, and do you think it’ll ever change?

I really don’t foresee an environment where I would do that. It’s something that I’ve never had. It wasn’t something that I was ever really warned off of. My conclusions about why I wanted to not be on social media came from me literally making a pros and cons list about what it would do for me, why I wanted it, and then also what it would maybe not actually bring to my life in such a positive way and why I didn’t necessarily need it.

And the cons completely outweighed the pros. And I am not judgmental of people who do have it, but for me, it’s just not something that I really feel like I want. And I’m so illiterate with it. Honestly, someone will hand it to me and it’ll be like an Instagram post or something, and then the screen will change and I’ll be like, “Oh, sorry. Wait, it’s done a thing. How do I get back? I just don’t know what I’m doing with it really at all.

You said that you have suffered with anxiety in the past. How do you deal with your mental health on a day-to-day basis?

Just as it comes, really. Yeah, I did have anxiety. I got it in the last year of school, and the second that I left school, it got a lot easier. I loved school. To be sure, I really did enjoy my time at school, but I think by the time that I left, I was so desperate to leave and go and see the world and try things and to make mistakes and to explore and live that it became very frustrating, and that kind of didn’t help matters at all.

And I’m extremely dyslexic. And the idea of tests and assessment in a mathematical sense, in a writing sort of sense, in a time sense was very difficult for me. So that was quite difficult. And it comes and it goes in waves. Everybody’s got their own little things, and you just sort of one step at a time, really, I suppose.

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