Stewart Lee
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's a kind of thing now, isn't it?
And I don't really want to get caught up in it.
But I was on a helpline to Microsoft the other day, and the man actually suggested, he said, after an hour, he said to me, we do have a special helpline for people with disabilities or who are perhaps neurodiverse, if you would like to call that.
That to me, that's a better diagnosis than the NHS.
He was clearly been trained how to broach this subject very diplomatically.
It really made me laugh.
I told my son he was laughing his head off.
I've found it helpful.
You have.
I've found it helpful to understand how I've annoyed lots of people without intending to.
Do you feel like you have annoyed a lot of people?
Yeah, in retrospect.
Yeah.
And also why it's difficult for people to live with me because I have systems, you know.
Well, systems for organising things.
My sister's around at the weekend and one of them's boyfriends started talking about the highest pub in Britain, in England.
I went, oh, that's on the front of the third album by Backdoor, the early 70s British jazz rock band.
And I went and got it.
And there's thousands of records in my room.
And my sister said, how did you find that in five seconds?