Chloé Hayden

new kids coming in all the time.

It was really exciting and really lovely being able to just experience so many different personalities and cultures and ways of being a human.

And I've always loved that.

And again, my parents and my family are so cool and so incredible.

So it was a really cool childhood.

Yeah, school sucked.

School sucks.

And school sucks for a lot of kids.

Our school system is built on a very, very tiny...

very specific idea of being a human.

And it's also a very tiny, very specific idea of being a human that is rooted in the same system that prison systems are built in.

Our modern day school system is the same as a prison system.

It also penalizes brains that think differently.

and only supports brains that are a very, very, very specific ideology of what someone somewhere decided normal is.

Meaning that most kids are going to end up hurt by the school system, whether that's in a large way like myself or whether it's in a small way where they just leave the school system feeling like they didn't learn anything because a lot of kids don't learn anything at school.

It's not built for learning.

It's built for creating this little ant colony.

I got homeschooled when I was 13.

I got my autism diagnosis.

And the same day, my psychologist who gave me the diagnosis said to my parents, if you send her back to school, you will not have a daughter anymore.