“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.”
Source: Unclouded by Longing
“What she didn’t realise was smug smiles and shitty comments from people like her, was what fueled me to prove them wrong.”
Source: My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace
“They're less careful, less capable, and yet somehow the truly terrible things never happen to them. People want to help; they attract kindness---they're looked after by guardian angels wherever they go.”
Source: Homecoming
“A diagnosis is not a prediction. It doesn’t tell you what’s possible. It doesn’t change you, your colleague, your child, or your friend. It just opens up tricks and tools to thrive.”
Source: Notes for Neuro Navigators: The Allies' Quick-Start Guide to Championing Neurodivergent Brains
“Rather than lacking a theory of mind, it is argued here that due to differences in the way autistic people process info, they are not socialised into the same shared ethno as neurotypical people, and thus breaches in understanding happen all the time, leaving both in a state of confusion. The difference is that the neurotypical person can repair the breach, by the reassuring belief that ~99 out of 100 people still think and act like they do, and remind themselves that they are the normal ones.”
Source: A Mismatch of Salience
“I stood up as determination rushed through me. I would fight like hell for my life.”
Source: My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace
“...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from collapsing. (p. 21)”
Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus
“I have autism”
Source: Amazing Women
“I do not subscribe to functioning labels because functioning labels are inaccurate and dehumanizing, because functioning labels fail to capture the breadth and complexity and highly contextual interrelations of one's neurology and environment, both of which are plastic and malleable and dynamic. Functioning is the corporeal gone capitalistic -- it is an assumption that one's body and being can be quantitatively measured, that one's bodily outputs and bodily actions are neither outputs nor actions unless commodifiable.”
Source: Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness
“Autism is dominantly conceived of as a pathological threat to (normative, liberal versions of) individual life and is even framed as actively spoiling/wasting away this life.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence