Until the age of about twenty-two I didn't speak. I was too disinterested in things due to ADHD or early-onset Bipolar. I had to be ejected from that state by a dose of proper inspiration. A friend brought me out, coaxed me out my inner state. I became very vocal and advanced in my logic very fast. I'd been silent before; now I was expressive and like a sage, though I had even still no influence on my surroundings so people nevertheless considered me an outsider. 
 
I was now tempted to teach. I had a message to impart, but people had no time, no commonality with my conduct, and so I would have to assign myself to crude iconographies, embedded languages, told in rudimentary geometric figures, and cease once again with the words.
 
Holistic healing through expressive modes is how I discovered my requirement for imaginative enabling, I am ninety percent self-taught. Of the genres of art, I prefer Symbolism for its ability to fill the spaces where verbal cognition falls short.