Well I’m an actor cosplayer and karaoke lover. I’m from Vancouver BC Canada. I’m a tall geeky, positive minded individual and my story isn’t for the faint of heart. I’m an empath, I’m autistic and I care deeply about all my friends

I haven’t seen the show before, but from the sounds of it I think what it’s trying to do is really wonderful. Challenging beauty standards is something that needs to be changed

So I would be a great role model because of what my challenges I’ve gone through and what I’ve, done to get to where I am today. I grew up in a low income family with a single mother. I was in foster care off and on and was bullied a ton all through elementary and highschool. when I was 16 I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitus, later to be rediagnosed as Crohn’s disease, and was severely ill for the last few years of highschool. I got a job at Starbucks when I was 18 and worked there for 4 years. When I was 20 I got so sick I almost died and I had to get my large intestine removed called a colectomy after being in the hospital for a month or so and got down from 150 to 109lbs standing at 6’3 was extremely thin. I was given what’s called an ileostomy and I had that for 10 years and finally got the final surgery in 2017. meanwhile in 2009 I started to get really bad inflammation in my face and some other sensitive areas, and for about 7 years my cheeks and some other areas of my body were really inflamed and it took a long time to heal. It caused a lot of facial scaring around my jaw line and cheeks in whats a type of scaring called spidering. I was diagnosed with Pyoderma Gangrenosum, which is a necrotizing autoimmune disease that affects your skin simply from any kind of pressure or damage. It’s extremely rare and even more rare to affect the skin on my face the way it did. I was doing background work as an extra part time and cosplaying and kinda learned to accept my scars for what they were and incorporated them into some of my cosplays, like the joker, or two face, or Betelgeuse the Emperor from Star Wars. After a while I learned that my scars are now a gift and I get a lot of interesting gigs on set. Deadpool 2. Van Helsing, Fear the walking Dead. Pirates of the Caribean. Then a few years ago I saw a clown themed rockabilly horror punk band and they inspired me to cosplay while I sing karaoke. I mostly do different types of looks of the joker but so also have done Jack skelington, two face, beetlejuice,, and incorporated that pop culture fashion into my every day spooky look. I usually like to stay pretty humble, but for the purposes of filling out this form I think I would be a shoe in and would be happy to share my story with people around the world potentially struggling in the same ways or parallels to what I have been through and how I’ve turned what so called beauty standards upside down on its head. Thank you