Drama Queen Quotes

“According to Steiner philosophy, kids have their own karma to work out and when it comes to bullying adults are not to intervene.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“And finally there was my troublesome belief in facts over feelings.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“You can always come out of your shell – it’s a lot harder to stuff yourself back in.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“many autistic people who grew up being socialised as girls are made to feel like walking punchlines, and that’s no joke. We are among the least understood people on the planet.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“Love, I decided, was only worth anything if it was hard to earn. Unconditional love, love easily won and kept, was garbage.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“When my dad introduced my brother as his son, I wailed, ‘but I’m your MOON!”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“It’s always struck me as confusing how babies spend the first few months of their lives being relentlessly encouraged to talk, then the rest of their childhood being told to shut up.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“It would seem the apple doesn’t fall far from the placenta tree.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“Every evening before bed, I would painstakingly organise my toys into pairs so each one had a designated sleeping buddy. This wasn’t arbitrary, mind; there was a deep and complex thought process about compatibility and companionship behind each pairing, based on their personality profiles.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“I was a sensitive child. I know this because I was frequently told to stop being so sensitive. Is there a product for that?”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“East Grinstead is home to the mystic order of Rosicrucians, the ultra-Catholic order of Opus Dei, the Christian Scientists, the Ashworth Dowsers, the Pagan Federation, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Scientology’s UK headquarters.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“But I digress. You’ll notice I do that a lot. It wouldn’t be a complete tour of my brain without enjoying the bouncy walls. BOING! Off topic. BOING! Back on topic again – I never lost the original thread; I just took a little detour.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“I was born at home, the product of two bohemian kibbutzniks whose greatest desire was to grow organic vegetables and organic children.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“I went to a Steiner school, which is also called Waldorf education, until I was seventeen and I have no idea what it’s supposed to mean.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“My mum was also a beauty, but she didn’t quite know her currency in the same way my dad very obviously did. My freshly heartbroken mother met my probably-a-bad-idea-but-appealing father because my mum’s sister was marrying my dad’s brother. It’s not incest.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“My dad was so Israeli he always reverse-parked in case he needed to make a quick getaway (I still have no idea from whom). He was so Israeli he’d show his appreciation for a good meal by licking his plate in the middle of the restaurant. He was so Israeli he taught us Morse code as kids in case we were kidnapped and needed to tap for help.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“Empathy is a physical experience for me. I viscerally feel other people’s emotions. They possess me like little hormonal demons and it can often be hard to discern what’s mine and what’s theirs.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

“This is the story of one autistic woman in a world that does everything it can not to recognise us.”
― Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels