Chloé Hayden

One in five Australian people are disabled and we are not seeing that same representation on our screens.

The answer to that representation is not creating disability specific shows.

And it is not creating further gap and further divide.

When we look at shows like Love on the Spectrum, I think it's really important that you have a look at your own internal biases on disabled people.

And when you are watching shows like this, it's really important that you keep an eye on the types of people that they are showing.

that you keep an eye on the editing, the music choices, the cinematic choices, and compare that to similar dating shows.

And if you were to see those same cinematic choices and audio choices and editing choices on something like The Bachelor, would you be uncomfortable watching it if it was a neurotypical person in that perspective?

It is incredibly important that we show more disabled people and that we are showing more representation.

There is a way to do it.

And I think some people are doing it beautifully.

And I think when it is integrated, the way that disabled people in real life are integrated and the way that disabled people in real life should continue to be integrated, it's done well.

Creating shows and creating an idea of watching disabled people doesn't sit right to me.

I get like, oh God, like dozens of messages every single day from people that saw themselves in Quinny, from people that saw their kids in Quinny, their friends in Quinny, their classmates in Quinny.

And it makes me so happy because I didn't have someone like Quinny growing up.

And because I didn't have someone like Quinny growing up, I felt like I wasn't supposed to be here.

I still don't think people are fully aware of how much of a grip

media has on the way that we view particularly minority groups.

If you have a look at how people have viewed autism for a really long time, a lot of those stereotypes come from media.

We look at Sheldon Cooper, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Rain Man.

The way that we see autism is