“Even as an adult, I sometimes find myself at a loss of words, as though my mind freezes. It can leave me feeling stuck and even a bit helpless - not ideal for someone who already grapples with imposter syndrome.”
Source: The Neurospicy Guide for Beginners: The Tiny Introduction to Neurodiversity
“Many trans and non-binary people are significantly more likely to experience invalidation of their experiences, both in their autistic and queer identities.”
“For all those who seem destined to stand on the outside looking in. Inside these pages, you're free to take your mask off.”
Source: Hollow
“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.”
Source: Needle Lake
“Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit.”
Source: A Kind of Spark
“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.”
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.”
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.”
Source: Unclouded by Longing
“I spent many years being a square peg and trying to bash myself into a round hole.”
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.”
Source: Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it