Fearlessly Different Quotes

“If your voice didn’t hold any power, people wouldn’t work so hard to make you feel so small.”
― Mickey Rowe, Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage

“People want so desperately to fit in that they forget what makes them stand out. Be loud. Take up space. Our differences are our strengths.”
― Mickey Rowe, Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage

“But my own struggles in life had taught me that something always being done a certain way is not the same thing as that being the right way to do it. So as soon as the casting had been made public, I had taken the liberty of sending emails and press releases to journalists across the nation. This press storm happened because I went courageously after my goal of making a more equitable world for my autistic son. It happened because I made noise on behalf of the 20 percent of the population that had been told to disappear. The press storm happened because I was determined for the world to see that autistic people can speak for themselves and tell their own stories.”
― Mickey Rowe, Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage

“In life we get the opportunity of seeing everything that happens to us as a gift. We get to make it so that everything that happens to us happens for a reason. We can turn our shoelace lemons into standing ovation lemonade.”
― Mickey Rowe, Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage