Until I was 13，I assumed I was just like everyone else．But one day I read a piece of paper in my dad's briefcase that （51）___everything．That's when I saw the words："Simone is said to have Asperger syndrome．"

I screamed at my dad，"Tell me what it is!"He （52）___that I have a mild form of brain disorders，which was a problem that shapes the way I interact with other people．I wasn't sure exactly what he（53）___，but it didn't matter．I just wanted to try to（54）___my shock and go back to the way things were before I knew．

But even though I wouldn't （55）___acknowledge the news，Asperger's still destroyed my confidence and made me（56）___and isolated．I felt like an outcast（被抛弃者）──not just because Asperger's made it hard for me to make friends，but because now I had this（57）___．I just wanted to be like everyone else．（58）___，at 16，I said to myself，"Enough!You can't run and hide from it，girl．Just face it．"

It's funny，the first time I thought something was （59）___ was not because of what I couldn't do──it was because of what I could do．In the sixth grade，while other kids were （60）___with spelling，I was like a human spell-checker!I've also had a photographic memory，and （61）___I call my"super powers"──extrasensory hearing and acute awareness：I can （62）___phone numbers people dial just by the sound the buttons make when pressed or（63）___ hear one sour note in an entire symphony!And I can（64）___ pay attention to two things at once．

Don't get me wrong．Asperger's can be very confusing．For years I felt like a butterfly（65）___in its cocoon（茧），waiting to emerge．It took years of work with a psychologist to （66）___ the difficulty of making friends．

I'm not going to let Asperger's create（67）___for me．That'why I am happy to have found out about and faced my（68）___．Asperger's is a metaphor（象征）for life：We all have（69）___，but the key is to be able to have the（70）___to face what's bad about them and still find w