Chloé Hayden

And when I took that back and when I remembered that again, I got excited about what my life was going to be again.

I think I've always had a little bit of it there.

I think, again, I keep bringing him up, but I think my dad has always been this sort of person.

Like my dad is an extremely stubborn Irish man.

And I've inherited a lot of extremely stubbornness.

stubborn Irishman inside of my brain.

And I think that part of my brain makes me go, I'm, I'm not doing that.

I don't want to do that.

But I think, um, having been in this industry, there's been a lot of times where I've have had a

opinions put on me and people telling me who I am and what I'm supposed to be and what I'm not supposed to be.

Being an autistic person, being a disabled person in the entertainment industry is rough.

There's a lot of things when you get into this industry that you're taught that you're allowed to say and that you're not allowed to say and a lot of things that you're taught that you're allowed to be and a lot more things that you're taught that you were never allowed to be.

And when I learned that, that was really, really scary and I wanted to get out.

I was like, I don't want to be in this industry if the whole reason I got into it in the first place was because of being an advocate and because of being different.

Yeah, and to be yourself.

Yeah, and I kind of realized that I had a choice to make and the choice was to...

lose my ethics and lose my morals and lose what made me me in order to get the jobs that I wanted to get and get to where I wanted to go or I could stick to what made me me and keep doing what felt right for me and the jobs that were meant to be for me would come for me and the people that were meant for me would come for me and I was never going to make a life that I genuinely wanted to live and that I would look back on and be happy with if I wasn't doing things with the intentions of

where my morals and my ethics are.

It is extremely important that we have more representation.

Yes.