“We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we can't ever be fully loved.”
Source: Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
“Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength.”
Source: Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
“Masking also obscures the fact that the world is massively inaccessible to us. If allistics (non-Autistics) never hear our needs voiced, and never see our struggle, they have no reason to adapt to include us. We must demand the treatment we deserve, and cease living to placate those who have overlooked us.”
Source: Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
“As soon as I gave up caring, everything got easier.”
Source: Show Us Who You Are
“To unmask is to lay bare a proud face of noncompliance, to refuse to be silenced, to stop being compartmentalized and hidden away, and to stand powerfully in our wholeness alongside other disabled and marginalized folks. Together we can stand strong and free, shielded by the powerful, radical acceptance that comes only when we know who we are, and with the recognition that we never had anything to hide.”
Source: Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
“Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. . . . spontaneity isn't random.”
“When we travel beyond the rushing surface of life, we can enter intentional time and feel the lived experience of now.( " Just for a moment")”
“In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.”
“Everything depends on everything else, doesn’t it? That’s interconnectivity for you – it’s a bitch.”
Source: On the Steel Breeze
“Ecofeminist analysis is generally much more expansive than environmentalism and feminism. . . . Ecofeminism draws on ecological, socialist, and feminist thought, incorporating a handful of social justice movements, such as feminism, peace activism, labor movements, women’s health care, anti-nuclear, environmental, and animal liberation.”
Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice