“What we really NEED is for programmes like Children In Need to stop feeling the need to ask disabled people intrusive personal questions.”
Saida Ahmed – Instagram, November 2022

Saida Ahmed is a British actress and writer, with a chapter in Lit: An Anthology of Dynamic New Monologues for Under-Represented Ethnicities. Find her @saisai_saida on Instagram and Twitter.
Read the Instagram post her quote comes from for the full context – here.

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