Matt Haig
speaker
2,177 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Matt Haig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I would be chatting away, staring out the window, being very blank, doing something else.
fidgeting, being on a calculator when I shouldn't be, whatever it is.
And does that stay with you forever?
Are you still autistic?
Yes, because it's not like a mental illness, like anxiety or depression where it ebbs and flows.
It's kind of a condition.
It's a state of being.
But obviously, as with everything else, so I don't know if in a hundred years' time,
i will be diagnosed with something else or whatever but in 2026 if you have this thing you know which i believe is autism you are you know different in lots of ways we're going back to the 1980s when you are at school you are an undiagnosed person with autism and undiagnosed suffering from adhd and you're feeling
I mean, I like...
imagining and i liked stories i did like writing stories and i like reading stories and even though i grew up in a town without a bookshop and without a cinema so it's the archetypal small town that you kind of want to escape from we did have a very good library in the center of town and it's still there it was brand new then and it's unusually for a library it's it's got a lot of glass
So it was like a giant conservatory greenhouse in the centre of town with a park around it.
And I would sit there after school before my parents got home from work and I would just read whatever it was.
Well, I often mention there was a book by an American writer called S.E.
Hinton called The Outsiders, which is fitting as I was a bit of an outsider, which I loved because it felt so different at times, but everything teachers had encouraged me to read because it was a book about quality.
quite problematic teenagers who were in teenage gangs and different things but at the same time they had this sensitive side to them they liked Robert Frost poems they liked sunsets they appreciated art and music I thought oh this might be me a little bit you know not perfect in lots of ways but had this sensitive side so that was the book and S.E.
Hinton herself was I think 19 years old when she wrote that did you have a teacher who took a particular interest in you
Mrs. Kurzweil, my English teacher, was a very good teacher, and she encouraged me to write creatively.
And she was one of those who wasn't so bothered about your academic performance, but just had a passion for books and the subject.
A lot of my characters are either Mrs. Kurzweil or my nan as a sort of hybrid, with a little bit of my mum in them sometimes.
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