I was 11 years old it was the kind of show  that I really needed when I was 18 years old

it was very important for me to have  neurodivergent actors from the moment  

my publisher picked up the phone and said  there's some TV people that would like to  

talk to you I said only if they're  going to cast autistic actors mark

should I put it here is that okay yeah okay cool a beautiful  thing about autism is that when you meet people  

you don't really you don't have small talks  small talk doesn't really exist you kind of  

um go on like a level eight a friendship  you're like oh yeah great like this is my  

life and this is everything oversharing  and then the other person is like yeah  

me too and then you just feel like you've  known each other for years because you've  

literally overshared your entire life to each  other which I think is such a beautiful and  

amazing thing we're so open and so generous  with that I think it makes you ten times more  

in so many ways in the way that your brain works  you can feel what people are going through you can  

see what people need there are so many superpowers  that can come from being neurodiverse so like just  

know like embrace that with me Lola and Georgia  it only helped connect us and I think that's why  

we have such a strong chemistry and like bond  as sisters as well because we have that luxury  

to kind of be so open around each other from day  one it's been really great working with them and  

not having to mask around them I've learned  a lot from both of them and the way that they  

are an ashamedly themselves and I think all  of us have taken a lot from this and having  

people whose brains work in the same way has  just been something that's really warmed me

I've never felt more me they've helped me  learn how to be more me they're just the most  

understanding empathetic deep human beings  look I mean that's they're my sisters now

if you've ever felt on the outside you understand  what it feels like to kind of not fit in we have  

to deal with it maybe more often and maybe in  more extreme ways because we have more extreme  

you know difficulties fitting in with the society  that we're in this is food you shouldn't have to  

mask who you are a lot of autistic people myself  included tend to be very much people pleasers and  

slipping into those sort of tendencies is not  always a good way to look after yourself when  

you're masking and you're autistic that actually  like there's nothing wrong with your behavior but  

because it's forced and put on them because we're  watching and observing and maybe there's like a  

delay slightly in how we interact with people it's  very obvious to neurotypical mind that there's  

something just a bit off and so when it comes  to people projecting it's quite an easy target  

because there's nothing wrong with us not in their  head consciously but we just seem a bit different

my advice would be to surround yourself  with people that bring up your energy  

rather than dragging it down we see  it every day with people interacting  

with us and kind of saying things that  they think is going to help and actually  

just makes it 10 times worse number  one number one on my list like you don't seem autistic like congratulations

yeah I could never guess so I would never have told that you're autistic so  like well done you and it's like no I know that  

comes from a great place where you're trying to  make me feel good but that just undermines every  

person that's autistic as you go forward you'll  find obstacles but as does every other person in  

the whole wide world and you can't let that stop  you from doing anything whether you are diagnosed  

not diagnosed whatever if you feel like you're on  the outside it's amazing because then if you're on  

the outside looking in what an amazing perspective  of life you have it's so exciting to think that  

we're part of something quite radical and quite  historic and then we're telling a story that's not  

been told before and we're talking about a point  of view that's been suppressed for a very long  

time and I think that's pretty special I think  making a little bit of history is very special