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“Stop being so weird, normal people don’t do that!”

“I believe that the obligation to recover is linked to a reudction in the tolerance of our societies for difference and a belief that there is only one proper way to live your life. And if you don’t live your life in this way… if you’re not autonomous, if you’re dependent on someone, if you need a carer, if sometimes you don’t want to go to work, if a couple of weeks you just want to stay at home and not talk to anybody… well that’s pretty pathological and you’ve got to be brought back to being in a ‘normal’ way of living.”