Life on the Autism Spectrum - A Guide for Girls and Women Quotes

“I panic and get paranoid and sound grumpier and more intense than I am actually feeling. I may sound like I am yelling when in fact I am having an attack of fear and am scared, like I am lashing out. I can never be sure of others' motivations because so many people mask their uneasiness under a facade of niceness or they lie to make you feel better, and that makes me panic even more.”
― Karen McKibbin, Life on the Autism Spectrum - A Guide for Girls and Women

“It's like the signal from the facial expressions interfere with the verbal signals and I have to look elsewhere to concentrate and to compose sentences and to take in words.”
― Karen McKibbin, Life on the Autism Spectrum - A Guide for Girls and Women

“Emotionally, it's exhausting... energy is usually taken rather than exchanged. The feeling is like being nibbled on, as if I were some kind of food source for a person who doesn't know how to get energy from the unlimited source all around us, all the time...”
― Karen McKibbin, Life on the Autism Spectrum - A Guide for Girls and Women

“There are so many intricate details to any kind of social interaction that someone would only be aware of when they miss them and others don't.”
― Karen McKibbin, Life on the Autism Spectrum - A Guide for Girls and Women