Please don't obsess on the number of friends i have or don't have. I'll find my own way, it will be right for me.

I don't knowwhat I'm feeling. Existing like I'm on auto pilot.I've put my Armour on now. Limiting everything gettingin but also not letting anything out.

I can't speak anymore, I open my mouth but nothing comes out. So many things to say. I wonder if you really want to hear it anyway?Instead, I leave my heavy mind exploding with unfinished thoughts.

Everyday feels the same and yet I crave sameness.Part of me wants to run away and be free.I feel trapped in my life I've created to protect myself.

She had not been herself for weeks, yet no one noticed. She knew this feeling, it creeps up like sliding slowly into the darkness. Some days she clung on, other days she let herself slip further.

I find some things difficult to grasp. I need to be shown or taught a few different ways sometimes before I figure it out

She became an illusion of herself. It was easier to cope with people that way

I tried to write how I felt. The pen remained frozen. The paper stayed white and empty, while my brain was dark and full

Being autistic does not mean I don't have empathy. Stereotypes are harmful. If anything I hyper feel everything and have to try to shut off to cope.

I'm an autistic girl. I have many years to grow. I'm going to rock my life. Just watch me shine

I take criticism to heart. The words hit me literally and it hurts. It can take me a long time to recover from it.

Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power.

I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books have a lot of little jokes and asides that aren't necessarily part of the main story.

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

Buffys very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

I was very studious and square in college.