“When I was in school, I got bullied a lot. I feel a lot of teenagers think that many people don’t understand them, even the popular ones. That’s why most teenagers would change their personality to join a crowd. That’s what happened to me. I was bullied by students who joined their friends in doing so.
But my advice would be to love yourself. God gave me autism for a reason, and to blame me, is to blame God.
When we watch some tv shows where there is an autistic character, the character will be high functioning autistic people. They feel shy and always looking down, but people forget they are also very smart.
I can talk to people face-to-face. I can look them in the eye, but most of the time I would feel awkward when I stop talking and then I would be thinking: ‘What do I do now?’
As for my dreams in the future, I prefer to keep them under wraps but I will tell you this – I want to study drama and theatre. I want to give people that magical feeling, because, well, everybody could use some magic in their lives.”
Photostory by Annis Saipul
Edited by Christine Cheah
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(This post was first published on August 15th 2018)
