I truly and utterly can not explain the utter joy and magic that was the Bridgerton premiere; as a teenager who wore her princess dress every day because it felt safer to play pretend than it did to be herself, getting to dress up as a princess again, but as completely and confidently Chloé, was truly something.
What an honour to be invited, to play princess, to watch the first episode of Bridgerton (guys, you are NOT READY for this season I am TELLING YOU).
I truly have lucky girl syndrome.
I have to pinch myself every day.
Thank you thank you thank you @netflixanz @bridgertonnetflix for inviting me
Dress: vintage gown courtesy of @venus_and_rose_photography
Shoes: @fluevog
MUA: @ellajeanhairandmakeup
I truly and utterly can not explain the utter joy and magic that was the Bridgerton premiere; as a teenager who wore her princess dress every day because it felt safer to play pretend than it did to be herself, getting to dress up as a princess again, but as completely and confidently Chloé, was truly something.
What an honour to be invited, to play princess, to watch the first episode of Bridgerton (guys, you are NOT READY for this season I am TELLING YOU).
I truly have lucky girl syndrome.
I have to pinch myself every day.
Thank you thank you thank you @netflixanz @bridgertonnetflix for inviting me
Dress: vintage gown courtesy of @venus_and_rose_photography
Shoes: @fluevog
MUA: @ellajeanhairandmakeup
I truly and utterly can not explain the utter joy and magic that was the Bridgerton premiere; as a teenager who wore her princess dress every day because it felt safer to play pretend than it did to be herself, getting to dress up as a princess again, but as completely and confidently Chloé, was truly something.
What an honour to be invited, to play princess, to watch the first episode of Bridgerton (guys, you are NOT READY for this season I am TELLING YOU).
I truly have lucky girl syndrome.
I have to pinch myself every day.
Thank you thank you thank you @netflixanz @bridgertonnetflix for inviting me
Dress: vintage gown courtesy of @venus_and_rose_photography
Shoes: @fluevog
MUA: @ellajeanhairandmakeup
I truly and utterly can not explain the utter joy and magic that was the Bridgerton premiere; as a teenager who wore her princess dress every day because it felt safer to play pretend than it did to be herself, getting to dress up as a princess again, but as completely and confidently Chloé, was truly something.
What an honour to be invited, to play princess, to watch the first episode of Bridgerton (guys, you are NOT READY for this season I am TELLING YOU).
I truly have lucky girl syndrome.
I have to pinch myself every day.
Thank you thank you thank you @netflixanz @bridgertonnetflix for inviting me
Dress: vintage gown courtesy of @venus_and_rose_photography
Shoes: @fluevog
MUA: @ellajeanhairandmakeup
I truly and utterly can not explain the utter joy and magic that was the Bridgerton premiere; as a teenager who wore her princess dress every day because it felt safer to play pretend than it did to be herself, getting to dress up as a princess again, but as completely and confidently Chloé, was truly something.
What an honour to be invited, to play princess, to watch the first episode of Bridgerton (guys, you are NOT READY for this season I am TELLING YOU).
I truly have lucky girl syndrome.
I have to pinch myself every day.
Thank you thank you thank you @netflixanz @bridgertonnetflix for inviting me
Dress: vintage gown courtesy of @venus_and_rose_photography
Shoes: @fluevog
MUA: @ellajeanhairandmakeup
I truly and utterly can not explain the utter joy and magic that was the Bridgerton premiere; as a teenager who wore her princess dress every day because it felt safer to play pretend than it did to be herself, getting to dress up as a princess again, but as completely and confidently Chloé, was truly something.
What an honour to be invited, to play princess, to watch the first episode of Bridgerton (guys, you are NOT READY for this season I am TELLING YOU).
I truly have lucky girl syndrome.
I have to pinch myself every day.
Thank you thank you thank you @netflixanz @bridgertonnetflix for inviting me
Dress: vintage gown courtesy of @venus_and_rose_photography
Shoes: @fluevog
MUA: @ellajeanhairandmakeup
I truly and utterly can not explain the utter joy and magic that was the Bridgerton premiere; as a teenager who wore her princess dress every day because it felt safer to play pretend than it did to be herself, getting to dress up as a princess again, but as completely and confidently Chloé, was truly something.
What an honour to be invited, to play princess, to watch the first episode of Bridgerton (guys, you are NOT READY for this season I am TELLING YOU).
I truly have lucky girl syndrome.
I have to pinch myself every day.
Thank you thank you thank you @netflixanz @bridgertonnetflix for inviting me
Dress: vintage gown courtesy of @venus_and_rose_photography
Shoes: @fluevog
MUA: @ellajeanhairandmakeup
I truly and utterly can not explain the utter joy and magic that was the Bridgerton premiere; as a teenager who wore her princess dress every day because it felt safer to play pretend than it did to be herself, getting to dress up as a princess again, but as completely and confidently Chloé, was truly something.
What an honour to be invited, to play princess, to watch the first episode of Bridgerton (guys, you are NOT READY for this season I am TELLING YOU).
I truly have lucky girl syndrome.
I have to pinch myself every day.
Thank you thank you thank you @netflixanz @bridgertonnetflix for inviting me
Dress: vintage gown courtesy of @venus_and_rose_photography
Shoes: @fluevog
MUA: @ellajeanhairandmakeup
I truly and utterly can not explain the utter joy and magic that was the Bridgerton premiere; as a teenager who wore her princess dress every day because it felt safer to play pretend than it did to be herself, getting to dress up as a princess again, but as completely and confidently Chloé, was truly something.
What an honour to be invited, to play princess, to watch the first episode of Bridgerton (guys, you are NOT READY for this season I am TELLING YOU).
I truly have lucky girl syndrome.
I have to pinch myself every day.
Thank you thank you thank you @netflixanz @bridgertonnetflix for inviting me
Dress: vintage gown courtesy of @venus_and_rose_photography
Shoes: @fluevog
MUA: @ellajeanhairandmakeup
I truly and utterly can not explain the utter joy and magic that was the Bridgerton premiere; as a teenager who wore her princess dress every day because it felt safer to play pretend than it did to be herself, getting to dress up as a princess again, but as completely and confidently Chloé, was truly something.
What an honour to be invited, to play princess, to watch the first episode of Bridgerton (guys, you are NOT READY for this season I am TELLING YOU).
I truly have lucky girl syndrome.
I have to pinch myself every day.
Thank you thank you thank you @netflixanz @bridgertonnetflix for inviting me
Dress: vintage gown courtesy of @venus_and_rose_photography
Shoes: @fluevog
MUA: @ellajeanhairandmakeup
Correct autism terminology is something that allistic folk tend to be incredibly uncomfortable with; they’ve learned ‘politically correct’ terminology based on what they believe, without actually considering what they’re actually saying, or the impact it has on the autistic community.
I’ve been in the public eye for some time now, and rarely have I had an interview where the interviewer simply says ‘autistic’, always bouncing between various other filler words, because our social understanding of autism is scary, wrong, taboo.
I am autistic.
Journalists, interviewers, media professionals that follow me; if you’re going to discuss the fact that I am autistic. I ask of you to simply say the word.
It’s okay, the world isn’t going to explode.
(But I might if I see one more article saying that I ‘suffer’ or ‘live’ with autism)
Fun fact: for my teenage life I wore solely prairie and period style dresses, insisted on calling my parents ‘ma and Pa’ (they’re still that in my phone, and dad is now still solely known as ‘papa’ by the whole family) my favourite place was Sovereign Hill, where I would literally just cosplay and help out the workers for the entire time, I watched Little House On The Prairie multiple times a day (still my favourite show) and I would even ride my horses in long dresses with nothing but an old rope around their neck.
Playing dress up and playing pretend was like therapy; it was switching off, it was removing myself from a world that was oh so scary and where I was oh so different, and placing myself in a world where nothing mattered.
Spending a few days in the magic of Bowral for the @bridgertonnetflix premiere was genuinely healing in a way that I did not expect and has reminded me to take more time to play pretend, to dress in my favourite clothes ‘just because’ (no matter how impractical) to explore, to create.
In whatever way you can, I urge you to do the same 💛
Fun fact: for my teenage life I wore solely prairie and period style dresses, insisted on calling my parents ‘ma and Pa’ (they’re still that in my phone, and dad is now still solely known as ‘papa’ by the whole family) my favourite place was Sovereign Hill, where I would literally just cosplay and help out the workers for the entire time, I watched Little House On The Prairie multiple times a day (still my favourite show) and I would even ride my horses in long dresses with nothing but an old rope around their neck.
Playing dress up and playing pretend was like therapy; it was switching off, it was removing myself from a world that was oh so scary and where I was oh so different, and placing myself in a world where nothing mattered.
Spending a few days in the magic of Bowral for the @bridgertonnetflix premiere was genuinely healing in a way that I did not expect and has reminded me to take more time to play pretend, to dress in my favourite clothes ‘just because’ (no matter how impractical) to explore, to create.
In whatever way you can, I urge you to do the same 💛
Fun fact: for my teenage life I wore solely prairie and period style dresses, insisted on calling my parents ‘ma and Pa’ (they’re still that in my phone, and dad is now still solely known as ‘papa’ by the whole family) my favourite place was Sovereign Hill, where I would literally just cosplay and help out the workers for the entire time, I watched Little House On The Prairie multiple times a day (still my favourite show) and I would even ride my horses in long dresses with nothing but an old rope around their neck.
Playing dress up and playing pretend was like therapy; it was switching off, it was removing myself from a world that was oh so scary and where I was oh so different, and placing myself in a world where nothing mattered.
Spending a few days in the magic of Bowral for the @bridgertonnetflix premiere was genuinely healing in a way that I did not expect and has reminded me to take more time to play pretend, to dress in my favourite clothes ‘just because’ (no matter how impractical) to explore, to create.
In whatever way you can, I urge you to do the same 💛
Fun fact: for my teenage life I wore solely prairie and period style dresses, insisted on calling my parents ‘ma and Pa’ (they’re still that in my phone, and dad is now still solely known as ‘papa’ by the whole family) my favourite place was Sovereign Hill, where I would literally just cosplay and help out the workers for the entire time, I watched Little House On The Prairie multiple times a day (still my favourite show) and I would even ride my horses in long dresses with nothing but an old rope around their neck.
Playing dress up and playing pretend was like therapy; it was switching off, it was removing myself from a world that was oh so scary and where I was oh so different, and placing myself in a world where nothing mattered.
Spending a few days in the magic of Bowral for the @bridgertonnetflix premiere was genuinely healing in a way that I did not expect and has reminded me to take more time to play pretend, to dress in my favourite clothes ‘just because’ (no matter how impractical) to explore, to create.
In whatever way you can, I urge you to do the same 💛
Fun fact: for my teenage life I wore solely prairie and period style dresses, insisted on calling my parents ‘ma and Pa’ (they’re still that in my phone, and dad is now still solely known as ‘papa’ by the whole family) my favourite place was Sovereign Hill, where I would literally just cosplay and help out the workers for the entire time, I watched Little House On The Prairie multiple times a day (still my favourite show) and I would even ride my horses in long dresses with nothing but an old rope around their neck.
Playing dress up and playing pretend was like therapy; it was switching off, it was removing myself from a world that was oh so scary and where I was oh so different, and placing myself in a world where nothing mattered.
Spending a few days in the magic of Bowral for the @bridgertonnetflix premiere was genuinely healing in a way that I did not expect and has reminded me to take more time to play pretend, to dress in my favourite clothes ‘just because’ (no matter how impractical) to explore, to create.
In whatever way you can, I urge you to do the same 💛
Fun fact: for my teenage life I wore solely prairie and period style dresses, insisted on calling my parents ‘ma and Pa’ (they’re still that in my phone, and dad is now still solely known as ‘papa’ by the whole family) my favourite place was Sovereign Hill, where I would literally just cosplay and help out the workers for the entire time, I watched Little House On The Prairie multiple times a day (still my favourite show) and I would even ride my horses in long dresses with nothing but an old rope around their neck.
Playing dress up and playing pretend was like therapy; it was switching off, it was removing myself from a world that was oh so scary and where I was oh so different, and placing myself in a world where nothing mattered.
Spending a few days in the magic of Bowral for the @bridgertonnetflix premiere was genuinely healing in a way that I did not expect and has reminded me to take more time to play pretend, to dress in my favourite clothes ‘just because’ (no matter how impractical) to explore, to create.
In whatever way you can, I urge you to do the same 💛
Fun fact: for my teenage life I wore solely prairie and period style dresses, insisted on calling my parents ‘ma and Pa’ (they’re still that in my phone, and dad is now still solely known as ‘papa’ by the whole family) my favourite place was Sovereign Hill, where I would literally just cosplay and help out the workers for the entire time, I watched Little House On The Prairie multiple times a day (still my favourite show) and I would even ride my horses in long dresses with nothing but an old rope around their neck.
Playing dress up and playing pretend was like therapy; it was switching off, it was removing myself from a world that was oh so scary and where I was oh so different, and placing myself in a world where nothing mattered.
Spending a few days in the magic of Bowral for the @bridgertonnetflix premiere was genuinely healing in a way that I did not expect and has reminded me to take more time to play pretend, to dress in my favourite clothes ‘just because’ (no matter how impractical) to explore, to create.
In whatever way you can, I urge you to do the same 💛
Fun fact: for my teenage life I wore solely prairie and period style dresses, insisted on calling my parents ‘ma and Pa’ (they’re still that in my phone, and dad is now still solely known as ‘papa’ by the whole family) my favourite place was Sovereign Hill, where I would literally just cosplay and help out the workers for the entire time, I watched Little House On The Prairie multiple times a day (still my favourite show) and I would even ride my horses in long dresses with nothing but an old rope around their neck.
Playing dress up and playing pretend was like therapy; it was switching off, it was removing myself from a world that was oh so scary and where I was oh so different, and placing myself in a world where nothing mattered.
Spending a few days in the magic of Bowral for the @bridgertonnetflix premiere was genuinely healing in a way that I did not expect and has reminded me to take more time to play pretend, to dress in my favourite clothes ‘just because’ (no matter how impractical) to explore, to create.
In whatever way you can, I urge you to do the same 💛
Fun fact: for my teenage life I wore solely prairie and period style dresses, insisted on calling my parents ‘ma and Pa’ (they’re still that in my phone, and dad is now still solely known as ‘papa’ by the whole family) my favourite place was Sovereign Hill, where I would literally just cosplay and help out the workers for the entire time, I watched Little House On The Prairie multiple times a day (still my favourite show) and I would even ride my horses in long dresses with nothing but an old rope around their neck.
Playing dress up and playing pretend was like therapy; it was switching off, it was removing myself from a world that was oh so scary and where I was oh so different, and placing myself in a world where nothing mattered.
Spending a few days in the magic of Bowral for the @bridgertonnetflix premiere was genuinely healing in a way that I did not expect and has reminded me to take more time to play pretend, to dress in my favourite clothes ‘just because’ (no matter how impractical) to explore, to create.
In whatever way you can, I urge you to do the same 💛
Fun fact: for my teenage life I wore solely prairie and period style dresses, insisted on calling my parents ‘ma and Pa’ (they’re still that in my phone, and dad is now still solely known as ‘papa’ by the whole family) my favourite place was Sovereign Hill, where I would literally just cosplay and help out the workers for the entire time, I watched Little House On The Prairie multiple times a day (still my favourite show) and I would even ride my horses in long dresses with nothing but an old rope around their neck.
Playing dress up and playing pretend was like therapy; it was switching off, it was removing myself from a world that was oh so scary and where I was oh so different, and placing myself in a world where nothing mattered.
Spending a few days in the magic of Bowral for the @bridgertonnetflix premiere was genuinely healing in a way that I did not expect and has reminded me to take more time to play pretend, to dress in my favourite clothes ‘just because’ (no matter how impractical) to explore, to create.
In whatever way you can, I urge you to do the same 💛
She’s a cover babyyyyy 🐸
My cover issue of @bigissueaustralia is out now and it’s truly one of the most exquisitively written articles and interviews I’ve ever had (because of course it is, autistic excellence remains in play in the form of journalist @siraimeeknight).
Go grab your copy 💛
📸: @benjihardwick
She’s a cover babyyyyy 🐸
My cover issue of @bigissueaustralia is out now and it’s truly one of the most exquisitively written articles and interviews I’ve ever had (because of course it is, autistic excellence remains in play in the form of journalist @siraimeeknight).
Go grab your copy 💛
📸: @benjihardwick
-Autism and grief-
Grief is my biggest, hardest, worst emotion. The idea of loss; whether it be as small as not getting tickets for a concert I’ve been hanging for, or as large as losing my nanny, is enough to put my body into a state of complete stand still. It’s all consuming, all encompassing, it’s physically painful- I’ve been crushed by a horse and kicked in the head and had internal bleeding in three vital organs and the pain of all is nothing compared to the physical pain grief caused me; ‘learning to live with it’ simply isn’t an option; particularly when that grief is the loss of a loved one.
In December, I lost my bunny, Posie. She was my little lifeline through a stressful time, I loved her with my entire soul, and she moved on from this life in an incredibly abrupt, traumatic way. I was stuck.
In what was that same week, four feral kittens were born and hidden under a shed at our upcoming wedding venue; to be found by us on our wedding day.
Theres a lot of conversation about animal loss, about a waiting period, about ‘not wanting to replace’.
Loss is something I can never, never get over; when a pet passes (which, comes with the territory of being an animal rescuer), there’s never, never a chance of filling that hole left by them; but, accepting it’s emptiness feels the same as drowning.
These kittens, particularly little Woolbrook (named after our wedding venue) have patched the hole Posie left with tape and scrap fabric and fur balls; and when I’m missing her just a bit too much, I look to them and I feel so, so close to her. Woolbrook has so many of her exact quirky mannerisms (and mannerisms of my late cat Bikkie, who I still mourn on the daily), Freja is her exact colouring.
Because Posies time here had finished, we had the capacity to rescue more; and maybe souls don’t interchange to different bodies, but their purposes sure do.
I am oh so sure that because He knew it was Posies time, God sent me the most obnoxious, cuddly, Posie-like kittens in her place. And the grief doesn’t change, but the patches get a little bit stronger.
