Chloé Hayden

a lot of the time a caricature and it's a caricature because of what media has told us it is.

So now to have Quinny and to have other autistic characters that are also coming out and other disabled characters that are also coming out that are nuanced and rooted in real life experiences means that when someone now says, oh, I'm autistic, they're not going to go, but you're nothing like Rain Man or Sheldon Cooper.

They're going to go, oh, I've seen that before and that makes sense to me and that's not scary to me.

So it's, it's really, it's really exciting.

And then in terms of advocacy, I will always be an advocate.

I want to be an actor so bad.

I'm going to like, I will always act, but I will also always advocate and I'm not going to do one without the other.

Advocacy is my existence.

By being alive, I'm advocating.

And by living like joyfully and freefully, like freely, I'm advocating and,

With that in mind, it also isn't just my job.

It is really important that it is not always on me because I'm not able to advocate for everyone.

I'm able to advocate for myself and for my little hex code of what autism looks like.

And I'm able to advocate to the best of my ability for other hex codes.

But I'm never going to be able to advocate for everyone.

And it shouldn't be my job to advocate for everyone.

Yeah.

Isn't that so silly?

How good a Hinge love story.

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