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“So it’s not that autistics don’t respond to eye contact, it’s that their response is the opposite of neurotypicals’.”
― Temple Grandin, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

“Jealousy—at least as far as he understood it from his dream—was the most hopeless prison in the world. Jealousy was not a place he was forced into by someone else, but a jail in which the inmate entered voluntarily, locked the door, and threw away the key. And not another soul in the world knew he was locked inside. Of course if he wanted to escape he could do so. The prison, was after all, his own heart. But he couldn't make that decision. His heart was as hard as a stone wall. This was the very essence of jealousy.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Neurotypical people seem to think and feel that it's okay to be rigid as long as their ideas are shared by enough people.”
― Temple Grandin, Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through Autism's Unique Perspectives

“The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins