About six years ago I started having panic attacks (恐慌症). I began my journey to _______ them with traditional tools, all of which were a great help. ________, a year later treatment was no longer needed.

Frustratingly, about a year after that, I started to develop ________ and began to have panic attacks once again. I tried what I knew best and went back to my previous _______, but I was still struggling and far from feeling well again ________ I got some new advice.

I loved to sing when I was young. My childhood had been ________ with creativity, yet for most of my adult life it was neglected. A therapist told me that mental health issues are common among the ________ minds of the world when creativity is suppressed (压制) . To regain it, I decided to get back into ________. Then I joined a group called Sound, a pop choir. Much better, I found the ________ to audition (试音). I was amazed that I managed to ________ such a risky situation and not have a panic attack. The audition itself was a win for me, never mind how I did.

I have now been a ________ of the choir for three years. I love the community and the performances. It ________ me of who I was at school. My path back then was always “do what you love”. My entire ________ was filled with fond memories because of that, and I was starting to build that back into my adult life.

Now, I am feeling a lot better. When I am ________, distraction (分散注意力) is key and singing does ________ . It sends me into a state in which my body works with pure passion and joy. More importantly, I will have exercised my creativity and relieved my anxiety.

My childhood was a fairy tale, until it wasn’t. At age 15, I almost died from a rare medical._______, a disease not fully diagnosed in time. Despite survival, I was left with severe nerve damage to my right leg. To this day, I live in pain every_______moment. I went from being perfectly healthy to_______being able to walk and with that came a(n)_______depression that threatened to swallow me whole — a depression I still_______to this day.

As if that wasn’t enough, a year later my family’s house fell down, we had to move into a caravan (大篷车). My following days consisted of going between hospital_______, trying to study for my A-levels and_______in a caravan.

In that caravan, I started writing to_______relief from my worries. It was my life line that_______me together as I studied. And from the________of writing then, I’ve just published my first novel. Now let me________my story.

Being a girl that was into science and reading________me from other kids. You probably already have a mental________: Yes, I was a real-life Hermione Granger,________to fit in with my peers, with a differing worldview. They still laughed at me. Regardless of the________that came my way, I never felt down for long. After ups and downs,________I found friends who, although amused by my obsession with books and science,________those qualities about me. They encouraged my________. My desire to write and explore science grew stronger.

Now, I________with cutting edge technology for an aerospace engineering company. Back home, I write. Last month I published my first________Undercover Thief.

People with autism (自闭症) generally see the world through a lens different from the rest of the world. Such is the _______ with Anthony Schmidt. Anthony is driven by his love for cars.

Anthony’s large collection of model cars is _______, but his love for automobiles doesn’t _______there. He also has a good _______ of nearly every car. Show him a car, and he can _______ you the car’s make, model and year immediately.

Anthony lives with his mom, Ramona. She says her son’s car enthusiasm_______ when he was about two years old. By age 6, he’d begun _______ a photographing series of tableaux (画面) starring his model cars. Ramona started a page on a website to _______ Anthony’s extraordinary works.

With his mom’s _______, Anthony has gone on to launch his own product line that includes books, calendars and photographic prints. To keep________ of his model collection, Anthony uses an Excel spreadsheet. __________ many people with autism, organization and mathematics are intrinsic (固有的) to his worldview.

Anthony loves cars. His mom says he ________ to make them his life’s work. He hopes to ________others with special needs and their families. “You can set your ________ to whatever you want,” he explained.

Anthony’s determined focus opens a ________ to another world and another way of seeing altogether. And that is a priceless gift for all of us.