"I always apologise to my cars when I hit a pothole."

"Well, technically it was a crash. Heck, the Manchester Evening News made it out as if we’d showered Knutsford with aircraft parts, but it was simply another plane that bumped into us and took our wingtip off."

"I set five alarms even though I sleep through them all anyway."

"Every night before bed, I would flip through the pages, deciding, ‘I like this one!’ or ‘Ew, this one’s ugly!’

Somewhere along the line, I developed this weird rule that I couldn’t go to sleep until I landed on a car that I liked. I would open the book to a page with my eyes closed, and if it wasn’t a ‘good’ car, I had to try again.

I remember very vividly experiencing my first heavy feelings of anxiety while dreading my very odd, self-inflicted night routine. Would I be able to sleep that night?

I thought something was wrong with me for so long and hid it from my family, and then it just kinda went away. There’s a weird childhood rule that makes no sense for you. I was probably around age 6–10 or somewhere in there, idk."

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