How to Be Autistic Quotes

“Autism logic, you just can't beat it.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic

“I chose the title because I thought it was funny. There's no one way to be autistic, there are millions. Every autistic person is their own person with their own identity, and I wanted to get that message across.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic

“Humans are biased machines, and we are especially influenced by negatives. We want to believe the worst about ourselves and will pick those scraps up throughout the day and piece them together until we have something that we can look at and say, 'Look, arent I terrible' even if everyone else says otherwise. Maybe that's just me.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic

“There's a common misconception that autistic people feel no empathy.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic

“We are our brains and our brains are autistic.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic

“Children really allow you to appreciate the passage of time and how quickly it falls through your cupped hands like water.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic

“Well it’s easy to say fiction has no impact on reality, I do not believe that to be true. I believe art and every form is more powerful than we believe and should be wielded with great responsibility.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic

“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

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

“It’s hard to be positive sometimes. I know I lost a lot of years to the inertia of just being, without course, without any sense of direction.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic