46 Quotes by John Elder Robison

When we discover and build upon our gifts it spurs positive feelings in us and those around us, and those feelings go a long way toward dissipating the burden of failure that many young Aspergians carry as kids.

Even at five, I was beginning to understand the world of things better than the world of people.

Most of the time, I played by myself, with my toys. I liked the more complex toys, especially blocks and Lincoln Logs. I still remember the taste of Lincoln Logs.

Had I not been drawn out by interested grown-ups, I might well have drifted farther into the world of autism. I might have ceased to communicate.

But were we so different, my pug and I?

I named him Poodle, beginning a long tradition of functional pet naming.

It has always bothered me that many people, doctors included, tend to view anything that deviates from the typical as being abnormal or broken.

When characters got up and moved on their own I found it so unnerving that I would stop writing for days. Glue eventually held them down.

I had created a fantasy that seeing into people would be sweetness and love. Maybe there was some of that, but there was a lot more fear, and jealousy, and anger, and every bad thing I could imagine.