Rosie Jones was “so mad and so indignant” as a toddler as she may by no means discover disabled characters within the books she learn rising up.
The 34-year-old comic – who’s brazenly homosexual and has cerebral palsy – added she was pushed to write down her youngsters’s novel ‘Shifting On Up!’ as she needed children to have a guide that made them really feel they might embrace their “individuality”.
She advised the Metro: “I adored studying. I learn all the pieces however I by no means noticed a personality with a incapacity and that made me so unhappy and so indignant as a result of folks did not suppose my story was price telling.”
The comedian additionally burdened she wrote the guide along with her 10-year-old self in thoughts as she would have carried out “something to be simply one of many crowd” when she was younger, as a substitute of accepting what made her distinctive.
She added: “The chapter I wanted rising up was about feeling completely different, as a result of particularly once you’re a toddler it feels just like the one factor you must do is slot in and never be the odd one out.
“For me, being disabled and secretly having emotions for different ladies and questioning if I used to be homosexual was terrifying. I’d have carried out something to be simply one of many crowd.
“However writing a chapter about proudly owning your distinction, proudly owning your individuality – as a result of that can make you good and fantastic and an individual that you simply had been at all times meant to be – is unbelievable.
“So if I’d had a chapter like that after I was little, it actually would have modified how I thought of myself for the higher.”
Rosie additionally revealed she doesn’t need to seem on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ as a result of she thinks her incapacity would imply she wouldn’t be “handled as an equal”.
She stated: “I watch ‘Strictly’ yearly and it actually looks like a staple of our society, and (the dancers) have turn out to be extra numerous, however I do suppose by way of incapacity, there’s nonetheless a disparity.
“I can’t think about being a part of that, and being handled like an equal to all the opposite dancers, as a result of though I’ve bought rhythm – I can dance, I can bust some strikes — by way of technicality, you’ve bought to confess that my physique can’t bodily do the identical as a non-disabled individual’s physique, and I wouldn’t need the judges to patronise me.”