“Waiting or pausing takes enormous skill and practice. However it is a skill that for you has become an essential way of being in the world without being so overwhelmed by it. Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, went even further when he famously said, 'Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response likes our growth and our freedom.' Waiting in the Light enables you to create a space for grace.” PeaceWaitingPatienceAutismOverwhelmedAutisticQuakerAutistic Author Book:Unclouded by Longing Source: Unclouded by Longing
“Diagnosis (of autism) is such a clinical word to describe a moment in which your humanity is so deeply affirmed, understood, and valued.” UnderstandingAutismDiagnosisAutisticQuakerPersonhood Book:Unclouded by Longing Source: Unclouded by Longing
“Today you tend to the flower of autism in your interior garden with love. You celebrate, rather than hide away in shame, your idiosyncratic ways and behaviours, and whilst there are many different kinds of wild and colourful flowers here, few have not been touched by the fragrance of autism.” Being YourselfCelebrationAutismAutisticQuakerAutistic Author Book:Unclouded by Longing Source: Unclouded by Longing