Chloé Hayden

So silly.

What the heck?

Yeah, that was so fun.

I got kicked out of every dance class I ever went to.

I don't know what I was doing on that stage, but I had a great time.

We had so much fun.

Yeah.

So I started this whole journey via blogging.

Yes.

That's how I started.

And I started anonymously because I got diagnosed as autistic when I was 13.

And back then, it wasn't really a conversation that was happening.

It certainly wasn't a conversation that's happening in any of the online spaces that I was on.

And when I got home from this appointment and I Googled it, the only things I could find were terrifying and very fear mongering and catered towards professionals or parents.

And so I started this anonymous blog to just vent and word vomit and just scream out to the existence desperate to find one more person that was similar to me.

And you were 13.

And I was 13.

And the void started screaming back.

And I realized how desperately people have been wanting to hear me.

themselves and to have it mirrored back to them.