My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

Elyn R. Saks

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Years before doctors informed me of my high-functioning autism and the disconnect it causes between person and language, I had to figure out the world as best I could. I was a misfit. The world was made up of words. But I thought and felt and sometimes dreamed in a private language of numbers.

To think too much is a disease.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

I'm kind of effectively bipolar.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless.

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

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