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“If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.”
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“Human beings weren't designed to handle the amount of stress our modern life loads on us, which makes it difficult to hear our natural parenting instincts. It's almost as if we're forced to parent in our spare time, after meeting the demands of work, commuting and household responsibilities.”
― Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting
― Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting
“The word “autism” still conveys a fixed and dreadful meaning to most people—they visualize a child mute, rocking, screaming, inaccessible, cut off from human contact. And we almost always speak of autistic children, never of autistic adults, as if such children never grew up, or were somehow mysteriously spirited off the planet, out of society.”
― Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
― Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
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“The hardest part of autism is the communication challenge. I feel depressed often by my inability to speak. I talk in my mind, but my mind doesn’t talk to my mouth. It’s frustrating even though I can communicate by pointing now. Before I could, it was like a solitary confinement. It was terrible having experts talk to each other about me, and to hear them be wrong in their observations and interpretations, but to not be capable of telling them.”
― Ido in Autismland: Climbing Out of Autism's Silent Prison
― Ido in Autismland: Climbing Out of Autism's Silent Prison
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