A Q&A from the Washington Post with editor’s note:

Quinn Bradlee discusses his new memoir, “A Different Life,” and website. Bradlee has velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS) and multiple learning disabilities, and is the son of Washington Post veterans Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn.

An excerpt:

Q: Is the book meant to be about being learning disabled, or about the trials of youth in general?

A: When I first set out to write the book, it was a book about me. It is about my experience. . . . It was never meant to be a guide, I guess, for people with learning disabilities. But that seems to be what it’s turning into.

Q: In it you describe smoking marijuana and your first sexual experience. Why did you decide to be so open?

A: I’ve always been open my whole life. I want to educate people. The more open I was, the more other people would build their self-confidence to be open about their problems. Because everybody has problems. . . . The more and more people get confident and share their stories, then we can educate people and then people won’t look at us so weird.

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