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I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

Speaking is physically difficult for me.

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.

The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.