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Yes, I was Surprised!

Where to start... LGBTQIA+, MS, ASD & ADHD...

Aug 27, 2023
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I’ve always been an anxious person. Age 15 I suffered from Bell’s Palsy – where basically half your face stops working. Just what you want age 15. After my eye also stops working my neurologist thought it might be Multiple Sclerosis. I also came-out as gay to my parents that year. This was the year 2000 and Ireland was a very different place, but that’s another post. I was lucky enough to have parents that understood the best way they could support me was to bring me to therapy.

Top of the Galtee Mountains

2008

Finished college and landed my first role as a Technical Trainer in the Telecoms industry. I was the globe-trotting Irish lad bringing the tech talk to corners of the world that weren't exactly tourist hotspots! Summer in Saudi anyone? 🌍✈️

I had the gift of the gab and the confidence of youth. I was frequently learning the course I was teaching on the plane to wherever I was teaching it. Sometimes only a chapter ahead of the students. I loved arriving at swanky hotels i…

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