Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guests this week are Elizabeth and George Severn. We learn about their respective periods of studying at the University of Kent and about George’s tactical decision to move to a Joint Honours degree programme so that he could go on a Year Abroad. We learn why his years in Spain have been the best of his life and why he felt like a ‘nosy anthropologist’ when he returned there. George talks about having Asperger’s and how a logistical problem resulted in time spent in a Spanish institution where he wrote a thousand words a day. He talks about autism, going to university ‘at the right time’ and the merits of keeping a diary and how Elizabeth’s diaries inspired George to do Philosophy. George talks about why we often need to put on a performance in life and they both reveal their love of pens. We discuss the importance of handwriting and the place of social media, and the audience of our Facebook posts and the importance of editing. George explains why he is the same person on social media as he is in re