I Have A Remarkably Normal Life.

A Lot Of Times, When You Have A Disability, One Of The Things You Deal With Is Other People's Projections Of What Your Experience Is And Their Fear About It, And Not Seeing The Experience You're Having. There's Nothing Horrifying About It To Me. It Is What I Deal With. It Is My Reality And My Life, But It's Not Horrible.

I Have A Remarkably Normal Life.

After A Year Or So I Really Thought I Was Howard Hughes. Here I Was At Eighteen Years Old, Getting All These Checks.

Only A Few Of Us Will Admit It, But Actors Will Sometimes Read A Script Like This: Bullshit...bullshit...my Part...blah, Blah, Blah...my Part...bullshit.

After All That I'd Been Through, After All That I'd Learned And All That I'd Been Given, I Was Going To Do What I Had Been Doing Every Day For The Last Few Years Now: Just Show Up And Do Teh Best That I Could Do With Whatever Lay In Front Of Me.