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“כשאני מוזג מים לכוס ונשפך לי קצת, אפילו טיפה, אני לא מסוגל לסבול את זה. בטח קשה לכם להבין למה דבר כזה מאמלל אותי כל כך. ואפילו אני יודע שזה לא באמת עניין כזה חשוב. אבל קשה לי לשלוט ברגשות שלי.”

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Book:The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
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“But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.”

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“Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile from the inside is seeing something beautiful, or a memory makes us laugh. This generally happens when there's nobody watching us. And at night, on our own, we might burst out laughing underneath the duvet, or roar with later in an empty room ... When we don't need to think about other people or anything else, that's when we wear our aural expressions.”

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“I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal-so we can't know for sure what your 'normal' is even like. But so long as we can learn to love ourselves, I'm not sure how much it matters whether we're normal or autistic.”

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Book:The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism
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“People with autism never, ever feel at ease, wherever we are. Because of this, we wander off - or run away - in search of some location where we do feel at ease. While we're on this search, it doesn't occur to us to consider how or where we're going to end up. We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.”

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Book:The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism
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“When I was small, I didn't even know that I was a kid with special needs. How did I find out? By other people telling me that I was different from everyone else, and that this was a problem.”

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Book:The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism
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