"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", represents Kayla's ongoing fear of being misunderstood and the vulnerability that arises from navigating identity as an autistic young women. She examines the disconnect between inner self-understanding and external perception and questions how personal truth can be distorted when filtered through societal assumptions.

Kayla uses a disfigured self-portrait as the main focus to embody the distortion that accompanies the experience of being misunderstood. This choice emphasizes the dissonance between Kayla’s lived reality and how she is perceived.