Though Autism can be frightening and terribly demanding, it also comes with its vast share of superpowers that are unknown to the typical human.

Growing up, my Mexican town of Monterrey was so safe, we wouldn't lock our cars or our front doors, and that is gone.

Before Internet existed, films were my source of real information from the world.

Being Latina in the US is something I'm learning about everyday. I don't feel inherently different in any way from anybody else and it is a feeling I cherish and that has helped me avoid thinking of my ethnicity as a potential obstacle from what I want to achieve.

To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me.

I think art is, unfortunately, sometimes our only shot at communicating our indignation safely and effectively.

Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and illiteracy.