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I was not a very fearful kid, really.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

I worried too much when I was a kid.

I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

I was an anxious kid. I worried about getting homework finished, even back when homework didn't count for anything.

As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little.

Even though my mom herself was anxious, I think she didn't know how to deal with it in her kid, and my dad just had no conception of what this was about, and sort of didn't even want to acknowledge it.

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

As a kid, I felt really weird.