Sharing her story on the podcast, Burke also shares her main message: “We shouldn’t change people in order to fit in. We should change the world to fit with the spectrum of diversity of people that exist.”

Shea adds: “It wasn’t my responsibility to change who I was to make them be more comfortable with my disability.”

Nobody Told me… Refusing Surgery As A Child Would Be The Best Thing I Ever Did is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Acast. New episodes will be released on Wednesdays and you can go back and listen to episodes from series one.

Sinead Burke: “Nobody told me… refusing surgery as a child would be the best thing I ever did”