Imaan hadchiti gay

You don't really have to structurally change too much. Which is a horrible way to think about it because it's something that’s shared. And how do we stay relevant without changing our minority, you know?

Alistair

It's such a good point.

So yeah, just like a huge two year break, right in the middle of the process where I was sad and bleaching my hair.

Imaan

You bleached your hair?

Alistair

At a low point during lockdown. I think abled people have this idea that an abled person having sex with a disabled person is this weird power thing where they take advantage.

That’s the first question I want to ask you.

Alistair

Was my paediatric neurologist sexy? I wasn't confirmed dying, but I wasn't confirmed not dying.

And when they're in this society of two, it works and they are having this like back and forth where they are genuinely learning from each other and delighted in a true meeting of the minds. Money is power. So it feels so flavour of the month, but also I'm like, how much of that is just because lockdown gave abled people their first dance with not being able to leave the house when they wanted to, or having to care what medical funding was, or having to worry about whether their doctors were going to bump them down on the list of who gets priority ventilator in the ICU.

It’s like even when abled people care, a lot of the time it’s through a lens of like, what if this happened to me?

Imaan

I don't know if you get this in your shows, but I get random people coming in going, ‘Hey, loved your act. It’s weird because even when I write stuff that's not strictly interrogating ideas around disability, I'll write a few roles as being disabled so that my friends will be cast and it changes everything about the concept just by having a different, like not neutral character.

Alistair served as Head Writer for Live & Proud! (the official global broadcast of the Sydney WorldPride Opening Concert) and ABC’s ReFrame (a 60 minute TV special marking International Day Of People With Disability, which he also hosted).

But that is all secondary information Frank has forged himself as an Internationally renowned comedian. Anyway. That’s just someone that’s being paid to be nice. A woman, so I was never attracted to her, but she was really good at medicine and being a doctor, which is more important—not for playwriting, but yeah.

I feel like my condition is weird because out the gate they knew I had some kind of muscle disease, but it was unclear what it was.

So, the confidence comes, the self-assured sexuality comes, and also—Sam's not risking anything. And it was a much smaller version, just Sam and Doc and a lot of their conversations that happen in the hotel room. She's happy. And a great conversation has to be two ways, you know? Whereas when I write jokes for myself, for stand up, it’s hugely about disability—I feel like I need to make a joke about it up top just so everyone relaxes.

Imaan

Yeah, I hate that.

Alistair

They're waiting for it because your existence is the set up.

I think the interesting thing about disability as a minority is that it's kind of the only one that you can become. It’s just as rewarding as a great conversation.