112 quotes found
“Sometimes there are not the right words for my thoughts. Speech feels like it's not a natural way to communicate. This is when typing the words makes my thoughts come out easier.”
“I don't have to look at your eyes to listen that's whatmy ears are for.”
“Conversations sometimes are so hard to follow.People are so confusing with the wrong facialexpressions for their words.”
“Our visuals must represent the truth and decode the verbal jumble so these children can find the right direction.”
“The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not opera...”
“The world has a fast-growing problematic disability, which forges bonds in families, causes people to communicate in direct and clear ways, cuts down meaningless social interaction, pushes people t...”
“I'll never get to hear her say, 'I love you, Mommy,' like other parents take for granted.”
“The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too lite...”
“The closer we come to understanding the challenges of autism, the better we are placed to accommodate and educate without risking removing that individuality we all love.”
“Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.”
“Its true, though, others wont understand me. I know that. Im still an alien in the American Christian subculture.Each evening I retreat from it, and I go straight to the Gospels.It's not out of dut...”
“What brought you here isn't your fault. We human beings have to live each day to its fullest and do our best in whatever environment we find ourselves in. There's no need to feel any shame just bec...”
“Dreaming is escaping. Daydreaming is a form of self protection. Dissociation is Survival”
“I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line the longest distance between two...”
“I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.”
“Today, with tears in my eyes, I telephoned the mother of one of our children (aged thirteen) who had spoken for the first time since the age of three...”
“Why was it considered normal for a girl to live for fashion and makeup, but not car engines or bugs? And what about sports fanatics? My mom had a boyfriend who would flip out if he missed even a mi...”
“When I was very young I thought I was just like everyone else. I think it took me longer than most to realize I was different and even longer to realize that being different was what made me great”
“But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.”
“Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often have the most amazingly inventive and creative minds. The...”
