Moving off Script

The article is about digital storytelling in the context of health and social care research with people with learning disabilities and family carers in the United Kingdom. It explains being drawn to decolonial thinking in the formulation of metodologia otra to think again about the processes and practices of (digital) storytelling in health and social care research. The article concludes by reflecting on what we learned about digital storytelling methods and the need to move “off script” as an ethical response to storytellers who want to tell the stories that matter to them in ways that matter to them.