Conny Bergqvist

As a child, Conny was diagnosed with a mental disability. But he doesn’t like it when people treat him differently – he is not his disability, and he doesn’t feel limited by it. He has a job, a girlfriend and a circle of friends. Four days a week, Conny leaves his apartment in the Stockholm suburbs and either bikes or takes the bus to work as an information officer for an organisation that helps people with mental disabilities.

Conny says: ‘When I grew up in the 1950s, most people did not talk about these things. It was much later that people realised that it is important to speak openly about mental disability.’