Lizzie Spaulding

But this soap opera changed all of that because it proved that Hayden was a natural, that she could take cues that even adults weren't taking, and by the time she was eight, she had learned how to trigger tears.

Tears were especially helpful in her next role as Lizzie Spaulding on Guiding Light.

however she triggered her tears by thinking about terrible things that might happen in her life like her cat dying this activated parts of her brain that are responsible for fear and anxiety and activating that over and over at such a young age had a huge impact on her little body sending her into fight or flight response even though the event wasn't actually happening which was great because she was conjuring actual tears actual sadness she looked like she was actually experiencing the hardship that was happening in the show or in the movie whatever she was acting with but this was not great for her chemistry and her biology and her actual body But she was being praised for being able to trigger these emotions so well at such a young age, which trained her brain to associate catastrophe with adoration.

And that was just the beginning of her career.