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“Ось що вони тут називають демократією, зазначає Джонс у листі до батьків. Це фарс називати Америку демократичною, коли міські очільники контролюють політику за допомогою хабарництва, і коли кандидати у президенти розкидаються величезними сумами на свою рекламу”
― Ґарет Джонс. Людина, яка забагато знала
― Ґарет Джонс. Людина, яка забагато знала
“There was just nothing that I accomplished during my time there that gave me any indication that real life wasn't just as mercenary, scary and completely outside of my skill set as high school. I was still awkward and strange, still missing cues and feeling like I was on a thirty-second (or thirty-minute) delay from everyone around me. I still thought that tolerance might be the best I could hope for.”
― I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
― I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
“I swore to myself that I would do everything in my power to protect myself from being hated and targeted again. The only problem was, I didn't have a clue how to do that, or where to start. When you're not on the same social wavelength as anyone in your general vicinity, figuring out when people stop liking you isn't the only challenge. You also don't know WHY the don't like you.
So I made the kind of desicions that make sense to a scared and rudderless eleven-year-old desperate to become less of a target: I obsessively studied people and characters who weren't social pariahs and tried to reproduce anything that might play a part in the way other people responded to them. Then I hepercitically overanalyzed every interaction I had for any hints that I might be screwing up again.”
― I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
So I made the kind of desicions that make sense to a scared and rudderless eleven-year-old desperate to become less of a target: I obsessively studied people and characters who weren't social pariahs and tried to reproduce anything that might play a part in the way other people responded to them. Then I hepercitically overanalyzed every interaction I had for any hints that I might be screwing up again.”
― I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
“The stealth suffering part came easily enough. I had developed a knack for hiding any outward signs of distress during my bullied phase, and those skills translated well to this new task.”
― I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
― I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
“I wanted people I could cry and laugh with, share memories and inside jokes. I wanted to go to malls and movie theatres. I wanted to get invited to parties and maybe even work up the nerve to go once or twice.
To accomplish that, I was going to need a new plan to attack. Being myself was still. unfortunately, out. I was starting to like me, but I'd also established that I was a girl of obscure tastes, so I couldn't really count on anyone else being on board. My earlier method was also out now that I recognized its two glaring flaws: 1. No matter how hard I tried, the normals seemed to smell the not normal on me; and 2. I always seemed to hit a point where I resented the failing effort that I was putting into all of that bullshit and morphed into a snarky contrarian who wanted to set everything on fire.”
― I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
To accomplish that, I was going to need a new plan to attack. Being myself was still. unfortunately, out. I was starting to like me, but I'd also established that I was a girl of obscure tastes, so I couldn't really count on anyone else being on board. My earlier method was also out now that I recognized its two glaring flaws: 1. No matter how hard I tried, the normals seemed to smell the not normal on me; and 2. I always seemed to hit a point where I resented the failing effort that I was putting into all of that bullshit and morphed into a snarky contrarian who wanted to set everything on fire.”
― I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
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