“I was an unusual child, and it took me decades to realize that I suffered from depression and anxiety by dint of my sexuality. “I was this sweet-sweet camp little kid who was talented as an artist, but it didn’t endear me to my older siblings or classmates or cousins,” he tells me. His mother, a gynecologist before the war, and father, a chemical engineer, gave their blessing to his dreams. Lewis and Roald Dahl, and in The Adventures of Tintin, Asterix, and Calvin and Hobbes. He also loved reading fiction and comic books and dwelled in the worlds of C.S. He spent his days drawing illustrations and listening to R&B: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey. Osman, then a child, wanted to be a fashion designer (“the Somali Gianni Versace!”). In the early 1990s, after civil war broke out in Somalia, Diriye Osman and his family fled their homeland and settled in Kenya, in Nairobi.
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