I cried going to bed so often as a teenager, like ‘I hope I wake up straight’

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Cian Griffin was described as a ‘show pony’ when he was little.

“There are pictures of me from when I was like eight, playing with kids on the green,” he recalls. “There was a big dress-up box and I’m in this, like, Spanish flamenco dress.”

Growing up in Wicklow, Griffin says he always loved the spotlight and entertaining, until he started to feel different from his peers, and began to switch off that part of himself.

“It was like ‘I know I’m different, I don’t know why, I don’t want to draw attention to it’. So I kind of went in on myself and became very shy and
awkward as a young teen,” he says.

“There was a lot of trouble in terms of my identity,…

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