Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.
Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.
I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
I love being a freak. It's great!
I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.
I was a weird kid.
I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
It's okay to be a freak.