My Autistic Fight Song Quotes

“I spent many years being a square peg and trying to bash myself into a round hole.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“What she didn’t realise was smug smiles and shitty comments from people like her, was what fueled me to prove them wrong.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I stood up as determination rushed through me. I would fight like hell for my life.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I spent many years being a square peg and trying to bash myself into a round hole, no matter what it cost me. No matter what parts of myself I would have to lose- to fit in. I now realise I never needed to change myself from being a square peg, I needed to find a home that would let me fit in, exactly as I was.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“She had seen something causing me a problem and fixed it. I could trust her.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“directions and places; my mind just didn’t absorb them.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“Breaking into pieces in the bathrooms multiple times a day had become the new normal.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I was forcing something to go against its natural grain. It was uncomfortable, uneasy.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“He spoke like it made sense to pick apart a routine I had done in the same order every day for months and do it a different way.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I stared at him in shock. He had done my introduction for me. He knew how much distress it would have put me in. I was safe with him.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I slept days and nights. I stared at walls and toyed with staples. I went from crying hysterically to feeling nothing for days. I didn’t care about family or friends.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I’m just tired,”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I don’t do anything outside of the Bank. I go home and sleep.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I have never managed someone with your needs. But that doesn’t make it any different that I will support my team however they need.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“everyone here needs help sometimes.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“But, although I’ve done research, I would rather just talk to you about how things are for you and how I can help you.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“So, I went home last night and researched autism.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“Great, another day. My legs were heavy, and my mind was empty.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“It was so simple for him to do what I couldn’t. I was a useless part of the team and I just wanted to go home.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“My shoulders jolted as I suddenly started crying, the days pressure crashing through me.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I closed the bathroom door behind me and slid down the wall, bringing my knees to my chest.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I clenched my hands into a tight fist and slowly released them, trying to regain control.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I had done that, and I had to deal with the consequences.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I held the staples in my right hand and put them to my left arm. I pulled, hard, across my skin. A red line followed where the staples had been. I repeated the motion. Again, and again, harder and harder. Until the safe section of my arm, the part people wouldn’t see, was covered in red lines.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“We had ordered the same thing we always did. Both of us were autistic and we loved nothing more than falling into a comfortable routine.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“It was taking everything I had to get through each day, chores were constantly pushed to the weekend.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“It was 8:30 a.m. on a Monday morning and I was already exhausted. Well, here went another week.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I walked to the shop around the corner a few times with Mum and Jenson, to build familiarity with the area and that shop, if I ever needed it.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“The weekend went by in a blur. I didn’t leave the house and I barely spoke to anyone.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“I tried to take in my surroundings more and figure out where the toilets were.”
― Rosie Weldon, My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace