Matt Haig
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She literally didn't feel equipped.
She felt like something bad was going to happen to me and she wouldn't be able to... So it's almost like a panic attack.
Well, no, actually, up until the sort of adolescent years, it wasn't unhappy.
I think I was a little out of place, always.
Much, much later, I'd be diagnosed with autism and ADHD.
And that would make sense of a few things.
But my parents had to move my primary school at the age of 10, I think, because there'd been no incident, but I just wasn't fitting in.
I'd just stare out of windows and sort of like be very distant.
Me and my sister were very close.
But yeah, we were very, very close because we had a lot of time where it was just us two.
What's she called?
Phoebe Rose Haig.
I was always jealous because she had a middle name, Rose.
And I was just playing on Matthew and no middle name.
So at the age of eight, I saw my granddad on my father's side playing.