Sydney’s ‘Chaotic Socialite’ on coming out accidentally on TikTok, and why she’s able to be more authentic than ever.
“People are much more comfortable meeting up with strangers for sex than they are meeting up for friendship.”
On the latest episode of OUTcast Podcast, Chrissy Flanagan, AKA Sydney’s ‘Chaotic Socialite’, shares her reasons for establishing her ‘after school club for adults’, Chaotic Social, in Sydney – a notoriously difficult city to make friends in.
“It’s like the last taboo to say that you want to make friends because we have exactly the same mechanisms, namely the internet for meeting people to be friends with as we do for meeting people for dating,” Chrissy says, going on to speak about the unique embarrassment there seems to be in Sydney around admitting you want to make friends.
“I don’t know what can bring our lives more value than being our authentic selves and communicating completely openly,” Chrissy says on the podcast. “Being accepted for someone that isn’t real is actually incredibly invalidating because then you can never get a genuine connection, and any validation you get land hollowly.”
In this fascinating conversation, Chrissy also tells Rosie about coming out accidentally on TikTok, and around the same time being diagnosed with autism and ADHD, and how these revelations are enabling her to live more authentically than ever.
“If you are really happy to own the label, whatever the label is, if it’s still divisive in some parts, then I think it’s one of the most positive things you can do: to be really out about that, and proud.”
“I’m becoming even more so the person that I’ve always wanted to be,” she smiles.
Click here to listen to Chrissy Flanagan on OUTcast.
Click here to find out more about Chaotic Social and book your next adult after-school club experience.
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