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

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

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.

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

So I needed to be womanised. I was losing my sheen.

There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking.

Impermanence is the law of the universe.

Leadership has a price.

Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away.

It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away.

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

Fail early, fail often, in order to succeed sooner.