Off the Spectrum Quotes

“Their invisible struggles with feeling other, their faces pressed against the window into a world to which they desperately wanted to belong.”
― Gina Rippon, Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls

“Many of the moments when my autism caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or woman should be, and failed to meet it. —Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism”
― Gina Rippon, Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls