Being happy isn't the same as being perfect - it's learning to live with imperfection.

Normally there are three kinds of roles or tropes for us. We're either the villain because I have a disfigurement and I want to kill Batman or James Bond, or the victim like 'woe is me,' or the hero, because I have a disability but do regular stuff I'm somehow braver than the next guy. It's lazy writing.

Disfigurement is so widely unrepresented in our media heavy culture it is little wonder people don't know how to react to it.

Film baddies are often scarred, marked or have a condition of some kind. In 'James Bond' stories, the villain is always disabled or disfigured - these things are a reason for why they turned bad.

I'm liked, and luckily people seem to get on board with what I do.

Banning words and subject matters for fear of upsetting people runs the risk of stifling conversation and halting social progress.