I'm not sure why... maybe it's fear. Maybe I thought I would put myself in a box. Maybe I thought people would question my credentials (I don't have any "official" credentials).

我不肯定为什么，可能是因为害怕吧！也许我会把自己封闭起来，也许人们会质疑我的资格证书(我也没有任何官方证书)。

youdao

Nelson has Asperger's syndrome (as), a disorder (though he would not like me calling it that) on the autism spectrum, and I fear he might get sensory overload in a place like this.

Nelson有阿斯伯格综合症(as)，这是一种孤独症谱系障碍(尽管他肯定不愿意我这样说)，我怕在这样一个地方他会感觉超负荷。

youdao

Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

我就说话，也不惧怕他，现在我却不是那样。

youdao

and the forces of nature. I dreaded that first robin so, But he is mastered now, And I'm accustomed to him grown-- He hurts a little though I dared not meet the daffodils, For fear their yellow gown Would pierce me with a fashion So foreign to my own.

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Though finding my voice took longer than I would have liked, the fear I felt was not of the writing, but knowing that I did not want this to be just a hobby.

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And as in the daily casualties of life every man is, as it were, threatened with numberless deaths, so long as it remains uncertain which of them is his fate, I would ask whether it is not better to suffer one and die, than to live in fear of all?

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Mr. RONALD WINANS: (Singing) Fear would no longer rule my life, and to declare your works, I shall not die but live.

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