Ok team, I’ve got a bit of an admission to make here…in this episode, with the delightful Simeon Wakely, we’ve taken an ever so slight detour from the usual penis dialoggy kind of er…exchange here. 

Welcome to the Penis Dialogues, I’m your host, Chris Young and for my loyal listeners – not that it makes you any better than my other listeners – but, between you and me, you are by far my favourites – who listen in to my other podcast, you’ll get a distinct Walk a Mile in My Shoes vibe from this.

That wasn’t entirely deliberate – but as we spoke it soon became apparent that my request for the usual few set pieces to give you fine folk a flavour of what it’s like to be Simeon wasn’t quite going to cut it on this occasion. 

I think that for me to more fully understand where Simeon’s coming from when I finally get round to asking him what it’s like to be a 26 year-old man in the 2020’s, it was essential that we spoke about what it’s like to be a disabled human…or a human with disabilities, in this day and age in the UK. 

I knew things were coming a little off the rails when his first set piece – unlike those of any of my previous guests – came around roughly 6 months before he was born…Simeon has spina bifida and hydrocephalus – and talking about that gives us the essential backdrop of where he’s coming from in his next episode.

He and I have spoken before and at length about how, although his combined disabilities can curtail some of the things he’s able to do…it’s society…it’s us…that actually prevents him from being all he can be…but in this conversation, with my lovely friend, I was truly slapped in the face with it. 

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Until the next time, I’ve been Chris Young and you’ve been rather fabulous

See you next Tuesday