24 Quotes by Claire LaZebnik

I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that’s exactly like being found.

Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.

People can have nothing but good intentions and still sometimes make you want to kill them.

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.

Juliana’s a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger – mostly because she’s the opposite of cynical and I’m the opposite of the opposite of cynical.

No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Don’t think that there’s a different, better child ‘hiding’ behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child.

But I know how this romantic stuff works: one girl’s perfect guy is another girl’s reject. And right now I’m glad of it.

For a long time our son ws a little boy with autism, which was a certain kind of challenge. Now that he’s a teenager with autism – and a teenager who notices girls – we’re faced with something else altogether.