56 Quotes About Autistic
- Author Ellen Notbohm
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Presuming that a nonspeaking child has nothing to say is like presuming that an adult without a car has nowhere to go.
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- Author Claire LaZebnik
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Why are you asking me? I'm seventeen and don't know anything about what to do when you're autistic and gay.
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- Author Julia Bascom
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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.
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- Author Christopher Goodchild
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Diagnosis (of autism) is such a clinical word to describe a moment in which your humanity is so deeply affirmed, understood, and valued.
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- Author Misti Renea Neely
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Children with disabilities are stronger than we know, they fight the battles that most will never know.
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- Author Ned Hayes
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Many people think trees grow so big from soil and water, but this is not true. Trees get their mass from the air. They gobble up airborne carbon dioxide and perform an act of chemical fission by using the energy from sunshine... Essentially, trees are made of air and sunshine.
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- Author Ned Hayes
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I saw the Eagle Tree for the first time on the third Monday of the month of March, which I guess could be considered auspicious if I believed in magic or superstition or religion...
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- Author Ned Hayes
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My fingers are callused from gripping tree limbs, and my nails are short and grubby with bark. They are like the talons of a bird that lives only in trees.
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- Author Ned Hayes
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The light filtered through the trees, rays of sunlight splitting around the vast trunks, the branches above us fluttering in a faint wind, and the green needles of Douglas Firs shimmering silver underneath in the breeze.
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