原文如下，比较长，我省略了一部分。

My name is Richie Jewell. I’m 20 years old and I have autism since I was born. Like everyone else in the world, I have an up-down life like a sea-saw. I went through some of the stuff that have been a rocky roadblock during my life. It was very challenging to live through the times that I endured during my life such as teasing, on and off depression, struggling to adapt in places including schools, helplessly observe my parents’ divorce and the struggles with my disability like problems with speech and language, communication, awkwardness in social situations, screaming and crying when I was young out of frustration. Well despite all of those horrible obstacles that tried to cut me down, I would overcome them by using my own set of coping skills: Getting through one day at a time, knowing that happiness and smiles triumphs. When I had no friends due to the disability, I pretended that my stuffed animals as if they were my own and practiced it for later on.

省略

Focus on moving forward through the future to live happily. We are amazing creatures with a powerful ability to overcome obstacles. Your life is your message to the world: Make it inspiring! Just like what I’m doing right now! My inspiration to this cause are my heroes of my life: Robin Williams, Jesse Saperstein, Steve Irwin, John Lennon, Rachel Joy Scott, God, Jesus Christ and most importantly, close friends and family. Every day, there will be new challenges that are gonna confront me but I will get stronger and more confident as I conquered them. I always live by a quote, made by Muppet creator Jim Henson, in order to continue my journey of life. And i quote: “Life is meant to be fun, joyous, and fulfilling. May each of yours be that – having each of you as a child of mine has certainly been one of the good things in my life. Know that I’ve always loved each of you with an eternal, bottomless love. A love that has nothing to do with each other, for I feel my love for each of you is total and all-encompassing. Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It’s a good life, enjoy it.” What’s my future have in stored for me after this? Well, who knows. I’m not a psychic and I can’t predict the future. The only thing I can do now is accomplish more speeches and keep writing my book so I would have a great future ahead of me. In order to be successful, I could try give the best advice which follows: Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go and want to be, no one else. Reach into your heart and soul to discover your talent. Sometimes, people’s talents fade away and you lose something special so, hold on to it. If your talent or idea helps you, then let it set you free from the obstacles that are currently destroying your spirit. Follow your dreams and heart by listening to that “whisper” inside your head speaking to you.

1.  I went through some of the stuff that have been a rocky roadblock during my life.用went through强调过去“经历”，后面用完成have been表明在作者写这话的时刻作者仍然认为是a rocky roadblock，就是说与“现在有关系”，一直到“现在”都是这样，用完成时很合适。

2.  Well despite all of those horrible obstacles that tried to cut me down, I would overcome them by using my own set of coping skills.

前面的分句用的是过去时tried，说明是指过去的背景下，而这里的would表示过去的习惯，情态动词用法，可译为“总是”，很常见的would用法。

3.  I will get stronger and more confident as I conquered them.

用as表示“to talk about two situations which develop or change together.”比如：

The mixture hardens as it cools.
As we drove further north, the weather got worse.

4.  Follow your dreams and heart by listening to that “whisper” inside your head speaking to you.

就是listen to sb doing的用法, 是宾补。估计你是被介词短语inside your head迷惑了，“whisper” inside your head是一个成分。

注意原文是head不是heart.