The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)

by Graeme Simsion

Once the label has been applied, even conventional behavior and achievements are seen as weird, since they are not expected of a weird person.

I had learned, reluctantly and over many years, that rational argument seldom overcame irrational resistance.

It’s better to learn from people who have had to work hard to achieve their skills, rather than the naturally talented.”

“If you’re intellectually capable, it’s advisable to become an expert on your own body and treatments,” I said. “Medical practitioners observe you far less frequently than you observe yourself. Also, they care less.

“Always a mistake to underestimate an aspie,” I said.

“Approaching systemic problems via individual cases is inefficient and involves people—hence uncontrollable effects at the level of intervention. High-level action is vastly more effective. Like modifying the mosquito genome rather than treating individual cases of malaria.”