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“It felt like all I did was try to learn the rules of the human world, watching carefully and doing the best imitation of a nice, normal girl as I could muster, and still always missing something I could never quite identify.”

Book:Needle Lake

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“What you do in the Lord is not in vain. You are not oiling the wheels of a machine that's about to roll over a cliff. You are not restoring a great painting that's shortly going to be thrown on the fire. You are not planting rosed in a garden that's about to be dug up for a building site. You are -- strange though it may seem, almost as hard to believe as the resurrection itself -- accomplishing something that will become in due course part of God's new world. Every act of love, gratitude, and kindness; every work of art or music inspired by the love of God and delight in the beauty of his creation; every minute spent teaching a severely handicapped child to read or walk; every act of care and nurture, of comfort and support, for one's fellow human beings and for that matter one's fellow nonhuman creatures; and of course every prayer, all Spirit-led teaching, every deed that spreads the gospel, builds up the church, embraces and embodies holiness rather than corruption, and make the name of Jesus honored in the world -- all of this will find its way, through the resurrecting power of God, into the new creation that God will one day make.”

Religion Faith Grace Resurrection

Book:Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

Source: Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

“One of the cruelest tricks our culture plays on autistic people is that it makes us strangers to ourselves. We grow up knowing we're different, but that difference is defined for us in terms of an absence of neurotypicality, not as the presence of another equally valid way of being.”

Social Justice Autistic Neurodiversity

Book:Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking

Source: Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking

“Diagnosis (of autism) is such a clinical word to describe a moment in which your humanity is so deeply affirmed, understood, and valued.”

Understanding Autism Diagnosis Autistic Quaker Personhood

Book:Unclouded by Longing

Source: Unclouded by Longing

“I spent many years being a square peg and trying to bash myself into a round hole.”

Inclusion Autism Autistic

Book:My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

Source: My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

“By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek.”

Autism Autistic Neurodiversity Neurodivergence Autistic Author

Book:Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

Source: Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

“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 Yourself Celebration Autism Autistic Quaker Autistic Author

Book:Unclouded by Longing

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.”

Motivation Memoir Motivated Autism Autistic Swearing

Book:My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace

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.”

Autistic Angels Watching Over Me

Book:Homecoming

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.”

Inspirational Education Medicine Parenting Medical Autism Diagnosis Autistic Neurodiversity Neurodivergent

Book:Notes for Neuro Navigators: The Allies' Quick-Start Guide to Championing Neurodivergent Brains

Source: Notes for Neuro Navigators: The Allies' Quick-Start Guide to Championing Neurodivergent Brains

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