“We can create a more nurturing environment by surrounding ourselves with love and support, learning and becoming friends with our minds, and continuing to dismantle harmful social norms in ourselves and in our networks.”
Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“Show them compassion, show them love, show them understanding. Protect them from the evils of the world, but don't hide them from it. Teach them to love and to be loved. Teach them to value and be valued. Teach them all that they are. Remind yourself and them that who they are is exactly who they're supposed to be.
It's not the child who needs to change, it's the world.”
Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“Our society has taught us that if we act in a way that is different to the social norm, we are considered low functioning, stupid, dumb, childish, loony. And the thing is, perhaps those fears are valid. No one wants to see their child ridiculed. But why are we then determined to change the child, rather than the world around them? Why do we validate the wrong just because it's normalised, and ostracise the right just because it's not?”
Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“In a world loud with profit and power, gentleness is radical. And it changes more than you think.”
“Mi ha spiegato che la raccomandazione a non fare i capetti, i vanitosi o gli intelligentoni crea delle barriere intorno a certi recessi della nostra personalità e da adulti ci spaventa l’idea di riscoprirli. Allora tendiamo a nascondere quelle parti di noi, quelle parti eccessive, oscure, eccentriche o ambigue, per la paura di non essere amati. Ma erano proprio quelle parti di noi -secondo lui - a essere le più belle.”
Source: Everything I Know About Love
“We can polish a mirror forever, but it won’t reflect what we refuse to see.”
“No matter what changes or who you do or don’t love, I will always love you. That is the legacy I want for you, not to be the girl who loves too much, but to be the girl who is loved more than enough.”
Source: Ophelia After All
“What was a home but somewhere you wouldn’t have to feel quite so alone?”
Source: The Teller of Small Fortunes
“When you decide to go
in the opposite direction
of everyone
dedicated to misunderstanding You,
and not look back,
you start running into everyone
who's waiting
to accept You and the earth shifts
right under feet, like that annoying song
And now, things that annoyed you,
and people that took you for granted
no longer threaten your peace
Only it can be slightly brutal; the cloud
that stays- the epiphany that giggles
while running down the hall,
You always held the power.”
Source: Confessions of a D3AD Petal
“She will simply cherish every moment she's allocated until there are no more.”
Source: Here One Moment