Different, Not Less: A neurodivergent's guide to embracing your true self and finding your happily ever after

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With her messages of ‘Different, Not Less’ and ‘Find Your Eye Sparkle’, Chloé is fighting for a better future for those who’s voices have been silenced for too long.

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Why is it fair that Hayden, myself and others have to experience these terrible things to only come to terms with our identities when we’re young adults, or for some, well into adulthood or mature age? Chloe Hayden, is a 23 year old youtuber, horserider, online influencer, singer, actor and autism advocate from outback Australia. Even as someone affected by ableism, many internalised beliefs I hold about disability were examined under the microscope. Away from her own land, where life was as confusing and difficult as the hardest journey in any fairytale.

Chloé Sarah Hayden [2] (born July 23, 1997) [3] is an Australian actress, social-media personality, activist in the disability rights movement, [4] podcast host, and author. Now, I struggle with crippling identity crises every other day and I still have a lingering fear that someone is looking over my shoulder on the train and judging me for whatever I’m doing. Learning to embrace all that you are, finding your place in the world, and creating a world that is more accepting, more accommodating, and more ready to embrace the brilliance of difference. An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old actor, social media star and advocate Chloé Hayden. She moved between 10 schools in 8 years, struggling to become a person she believed society would accept, and was eventually diagnosed with autism and ADHD.

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This is the exact storyline of a book entitled ‘Wreck Of The Titan’, written 14 years before the Titanic sank! I barely understood what ‘autism’ meant myself, but because I was told to hide it, I knew it wasn’t good. It’s clear from the first sentence that Hayden adores anything and everything associated with Disney animated movies. Hayden has a younger brother who is also autistic, [5] as well as an adopted brother and sister from Taiwan.Society often accepts difference in children, but it’s not ‘acceptance’ so much as it is a confidence that those differences will fade. I was the lion cub in the desert, the trapped Genie, the hidden-away Quasimodo, but I was without a sidekick to bring me through the middle chapters of my story. It was only after a life-changing group of allies showed her that different did not mean less that she learned to celebrate her true voice and find her happily ever after.

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Hayden offers an intersectional perspective, discussing the barriers people of colour, LGBTQ+ and other marginalised groups face in similar environments.

Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Logie awards 2023: Crazy Fun Park beats Bluey, Sonia Kruger takes gold and Tony Armstrong's back-to-back win". I’m an autistic girl who has put on a mask of neurotypicality to hide anything that makes me stand out. Chloé Hayden is an award-winning actor and disability advocate, motivational speaker and social media influencer whose story of being 'different, not less' has attracted a worldwide following.