Autism Spectrum Quotes

“Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one live in a world in which one's mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? There were no answers.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“In these days, doctors know little about autism. They blame it on distant parents who don't communicate enough with their children”
― Pénélope Bagieu, Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

“That tongue of yours. Lots of people commented on Devon’s tongue. She stuck it out, sometimes, inspecting it in the mirror. There was nothing special about her tongue that she could ever see.”
― Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

“-autism is neither a deficit, disease nor disorder, but simply a different, and equally valid, way of being.”
― Victoria Honeybourne, A Practical Guide to Happiness in Adults on the Autism Spectrum

“My ears work. My brain understands. Can't you see I am a REAL PERSON?”
― Carol Cujec, Real

“Do you find yourself unable to focus in social situations because your mind is distracted by the minutia of these interactions?” he begins. ​I’m too busy thinking about the way someone’s bone structure works when saying these words to actually respond to them, but my therapist takes that as a yes.”
― Chuck Tingle, Not Pounded By The Physical Manifestation Of Someone Else's Doubt In My Place On The Autism Spectrum Because Denying Someone's Personal Journey And Identity Like That Is Incredibly Rude So No Thanks

“While many autistic people face great challenges as children, things become even harder once they reach adulthood. Suddenly, society expects you to be “an adult” and behave and function as such. It is such a shame that exactly at the point in their lives when they need it the most, the support they receive from organizations and resources often stops. Because I was diagnosed at 21, I never received any support as a child. After I received my diagnosis, my mother tried to find all kinds of resources, but she soon realized that I was too old for much of anything.”
― Casey "Remrov" Vormer, Connecting With The Autism Spectrum: How To Talk, How To Listen, And Why You Shouldn’t Call It High-Functioning

“I am against the rush to medicalize our children and young people to present as the opposite sex when they are confused or when other conditions such as autism are misattributed as trans.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“Divergence is nature’s way to expansion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Mr.Spiner I have many patients with autism and Asperger’s syndrome. They often have extreme difficulties with basic social interaction. For many of them, you or rather Data is their icon. Their hero.”
I am momentarily speechless, taking this in. “I’m not sure I understand.”
“You see Mr. Spiner- the inner world of a person of a person with autism or Asperger’s syndrome is very much like the feeling of being an emotionless android in a society of emotional humans.”
― Brent Spiner, Fan Fiction

“It was as though I had even to trick my own mind by chattering in such a casual and blase manner; any other way stopped at the point of motivation. It was as though I were emotionally constipated and the words could not otherwise escape my lips. If it were not for the methods I had devised, my words, like my screams and so many of my sobs, would have remained silent.
People would push me to get to the point. When what I had to say was negative, this was quite simple. Opinions that had nothing to do with my own identity or needs rolled off my tongue like wisecracks from a stand-up comedian.
....Hiding behind the characters of Carol and Willie, I could say what I thought, but the problem was that I could not say what I felt. One solution was to become cold and clinical
about topics I might feel something about. Everyone does this to an extent, in order to cover up what they feel, but I had actually to convince myself about things; it made me a
shell of a person.”
― Donna Williams, Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl

“Mathematical/musical thinkers are pattern thinkers. They think in patterns and they notice patterns in numbers and music. They are often great composers, computer programmers, or chess players.”
― Casey "Remrov" Vormer, Connecting With The Autism Spectrum: How To Talk, How To Listen, And Why You Shouldn’t Call It High-Functioning

“The sad fact is that many autistic adults do not have a job or have never worked for pay. Many autistic people do volunteer work while living on disability payments because they encounter too many issues at a workplace. Even though volunteer work also comes with responsibilities, there's less pressure regarding expectations and deadlines.”
― Casey "Remrov" Vormer, Connecting With The Autism Spectrum: How To Talk, How To Listen, And Why You Shouldn’t Call It High-Functioning

“One of the most common issues autistic students have with homework is exhaustion. When I came home after a day of school, I was so tired.”
― Casey "Remrov" Vormer, Connecting With The Autism Spectrum: How To Talk, How To Listen, And Why You Shouldn’t Call It High-Functioning

“Because if someone had told me when I was younger that it was OK to not be like everybody else, that it was not my job to try to be "normal" and to "fit in," that my way of seeing the world was just as valid and important as everybody else's, then I think I would have found growing up a lot easier.”
― Abigail Balfe, A Different Sort of Normal

“– but what exactly do we mean by happiness? Is happiness a short-term state (‘I’m happy when I’m playing tennis’) or a longer-term condition (‘I’m a happy person’)? The very thing that makes one person extremely happy (going to a football match, reading a book, being alone...) might indeed induce a state of extreme unhappiness in another. But happiness, however defined, is something generally considered a positive state worth cultivating.”
― Victoria Honeybourne, A Practical Guide to Happiness in Adults on the Autism Spectrum

“-success does not bring long-term happiness, but that being happy can increase the likelihood of success.”
― Victoria Honeybourne, A Practical Guide to Happiness in Adults on the Autism Spectrum

“It is said that autism is like having a different operating system from other people. ... Most people are Windows PCs, the arty people are Macs and we run on Linux We will need programs to help us interact with the majority of Windows people. And at our heart is a different, not inferior, operating system.”
― Richard Maguire

“It is said that autism is like having a different operating system from other people. ... Most people are Windows PCs, the arty people are Macs, and we run on Linux We will need programs to help us interact with the majority of Windows people. And at our heart is a different, not inferior, operating system.”
― Richard Maguire

“It is said that autism is like having a different operating system from other people. ... Most people are Windows PCs, the arty people are Macs, and we run on Linux. We will need programs to help us interact with the majority of Windows people. And at our heart is a different, not inferior, operating system.”
― Richard Maguire

“When feelings go on overload,
I pause and breathe
and all is . . . slowed.”
― Jolene Gutiérrez, Too Much!: An Overwhelming Day

“Our brains are sending sparks in different directions and sometimes they end up in the wrong place, but sometimes they end up in incredible places.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic

“I was doing well in all my classes, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. But I started to feel sick, every day.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic

“I was too young to realize that my brain and thoughts could make me just as ill as an upset stomach could.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe

“my anxiety began to devour me.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic

“Pretty please? It will be fun,” Caroline said. She spoke using a computer voice that came out of her tablet. That was how Caroline talked. She’d type things into an app, and then a voice from her tablet–a snotty-sounding British lady–would speak her words out loud.”
― Sarah Kapit, The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family

“Actually, the more I think about it, the more I figure that a lot of the cons of autism are not really caused by autism, but by how other people react to it.”
― Libby Scott, Can You See Me?

“Gender is probably just another thing I just don't get. Like what faces to make and when, or whether someone is really interested when I tell them about mantis shrimp and their smashers.”
― Jess Callans, Ollie In Between

“Divergent Dynamite
(The Sonnet)

You only know my infinite radiance,
you got no clue to my innate hurricane.
Day in and day out I struggle autistic,
Genius is outcome of a mind broken.

There are cracks across my heart,
nothing can bar the pouring rays.
Light is but suffering harnessed,
Genius is brokenness harnessed.

There is no end to my exuberance,
limits of typicals don't apply to me.
I am but an enigma of unbending tenacity,
every breath is testament to impossibility.

Divergence is nature's way to expansion.
Divergent dynamite I, am living evolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Genius is outcome of a mind broken.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee