I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.

My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, specifically). But there were certainly traits within that condition, within the autism spectrum in general, especially at the high functioning end, that I think are best looked at as pluses.

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.