Stim Quotes

“We’ll show them that we’re not just geeky freaks and obsessive nerds without any social skills.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“The corporate world only wants people who conform, who follow the leaders, who are team players.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“She stepped on a copy of The Hobbit and slipped because of the poor friction of the fiction on the floor,”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“I can’t bear to watch the television news. Or war documentaries. Or movies like ‘Titanic’. They are too intense, too upsetting, an assault and battery on the feeling cognisance. It is simply too much negative emotion for me to process all at once; it floods my senses and sits on my mind like a bloated, malevolent ghost waiting to pounce. Even newspapers have this effect of leaving me feeling low and fearful, so I dare not peruse them, least I catch sight of a headline of some disaster or other.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“Typing fast, I added several former British Prime Ministers and ex-US Presidents to my permanent hate list. This, of course, was just out of basic principles. I certainly didn’t know any of them. In fact, several of them had died before I was born. But I thought they deserved to be hated all the same. They must have done something wrong. People usually don’t ascend to positions of power like that by being nice.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“I wondered how they could have so much to say and why they were sometimes so spirited when talking, and yet convey so little factual information to each other with perfect ease. In”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“When there is a lot of information bombarding us all at once, such as the sounds, movements and smells of several people, it is hard to know what is most important, and all the information tries to flow down the small, indirect pathways, and gets clogged up, just like a traffic jam. It is sensory overload.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“Usually I would find myself having to step aside while oncoming pedestrians never deviated a centimetre from their intended path, and would have walked straight into me as if I did not exist for them.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“There is a screaming in my head. It is me, or some part of me that has been woken up like a kraken disturbed from the seabed by a passing ship, surfacing to drag the boat and sailors to a watery grave. With each scream, I feel myself sinking lower and lower into an abyss, dark and suffocating. A voice—my voice—has started up in my mind, telling me how worthless I am, that I am such a pariah no woman will ever notice me, that no one will care if I got hit by a bus.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“have to. But this apparent coldness is not a lack of empathy and feeling; it is a hypersensitivity. It is feeling too much.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“Some people say ASD is ‘an empathy disorder’. We are unfeeling and uncaring, according to them. But how can they know my inner mind any more than I can know theirs?”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“When others are upset, I am upset too, but I do not know why. When others shout or become angry, I become afraid, fearing attack. A television, switched on, can push uncomfortable and unwelcome experiences into the very environment in which I need to feel safe and calm, my home, so I do not watch it.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“People usually don’t ascend to positions of power like that by being nice.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“All of them. I mean, they ask you a question, and they don’t want to hear the answer if it disagrees with their own opinion. Typical NS crap. I’ve heard this heaps of times.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“Also, I do not like them touching me, and if a fat person sits next to me, they inevitably touch me. So I deliberately sit in a way that usually makes people look for another vacant seat.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“I wasn’t like the other girls at school. All they did was hang around in groups and talk about boys and TV shows and clothes and stuff. Do their hair. You know. And all that ‘hi, what cool shoes, you look great, have a nice day’ crap.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“She departed without saying goodbye, leaving the empty cup behind her, contrary to café regulations. What a rebel.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“Yet whenever there is uncertainty, I feel compelled to evaluate all possible outcomes. But then I feel overwhelmed.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“We are the square pegs that do not neatly fit into the round holes of life without taking a battering.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“BAND stands for ‘Ban Autism Neurodiversity Discrimination’.”
― Kevin Berry, Stim

“Apparently, hot drinks cool your body down faster than cold ones. “Do”
― Kevin Berry, Stim