...seeing things from a different perspective...

"Imagine a world where Aspergers was the norm, and non-autistics or neurotypicals were the minority. Let's try it: Those who feel the need to constantly be with a variety of friends are considered fickle. Those with no propensity for computers and science are called geeks. Those with no special interest are thought to be ungrounded and lost. Those without obsessive focus have to take classes to cultivate it."

~Rudy Simone

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...stare, don't stare...make up your mind...

"I don't really understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs"

~John Elder Robison

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...different, not defective...

"From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking."

~Tony Attwood

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...the imagined child...

“By separating the autism from the person, are we encouraging our patients’ family members to love an imagined nonautistic child that was never born, forgetting about the real person who exists in front of us."

~ Christina Nicolaidis, A Physician Speaks

...the first stone spears...

"Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley."

~ Temple Grandin

...we are not puzzle pieces...

“…autistic people are people: they’re not puzzle pieces or baffling enigmas or medical mysteries to be solved or ‘normal’ people ‘trapped’ in the bodies of autistics or any of that crap that infects so many portrayals of autistic people in both the clinical literature and the popular media. At the same time, I think it’s equally important to celebrate the differences between autistic people and typical people, and to recognize the need for accommodating autism as a significant disability…”

~ Steve Silberman, an Interview with Steve Silberman author of Neurotribes.

...no cure for being human...

“There is no cure for being human.”

~ Cheri Rauser, mom to Isabell