autism

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
5a519e3	You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.	bravery inspirational autism	Matthew Dicks
4abe5b1	On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.	autism cats	Jodi Picoult
bd7f3b5	If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.	poetry wisdom details autism wisdom-vs-nerds nerdiness intuition nerds nerd	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
66dd6a1	Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.	humor intelligence wisdom autism wisdom-vs-nerdiness sense-of-humor nerds nerd wit	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
987e0de	A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing	fiction sparks autism nicholas	Nicholas Sparks
e0f8aea	I've met so many parents of the kids who are on the low end of the autism spectrum, kids who are diametrically opposed to Jacob, with his Asperger's. They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else but truly doesn't know how.	aspergers-syndrome disability autism	Jodi Picoult
335e940	Also I didn't habe 20/20 vision whch you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.	truth astronaut autism belief wishes	Mark Haddon
507b397	There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself.	autism	Jodi Picoult
8bbc4d5	This is where I go, when I go: It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through. I'm there, but I'm not there. I am pounding to be let out, but nobody can hear me. This is where I go, when I go: To a country where everyone's face looks different from mine, and the language is the act of not speaking, and noise is everywhere in the air we breathe. I am doing what the Romans do in Rome; I am trying to communicate, but no one has bothered to tell me that these people cannot hear. This is where I go, when I go: Somewhere completely, unutterably orange. This is where I go, when I go: To the place where my body becomes a piano full of black keys only--the sharps and the flats, when everyone know that to play a song other people want to hear, you need some white keys. This is why I come back: To find those white keys.	autism	Jodi Picoult
f1afd0e	[Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much noise and she just could not handle the supermarket. She continually jumped, afraid that someone might recognise or touch her. She could not make the simplest of decisions - which type of bread did she want, or what kind of salami? I tried to do the shopping as quickly as possible, but at the check-out she started to panic. She took out her wallet, knocked off her glasses, dropped the money on the floor, stuff was going all over the place.	money people fear asperger-s asperger-s-syndrome aspergers aspergers-syndrome check-out jump jumped recognise sensory-stimulation quickly wallet stuff supermarket overwhelmed autism glasses shopping decision panic decisions noise touch	Andrew Wilson
3af427d	[Patricia Highsmith] was an extremely unbalanced person, extremely hostile and misanthropic and totally incapable of any kind of relationship, not just intimate ones. I felt sorry for her, because it wasn't her fault. There was something in her early days or whatever that made her incapable. She drove everybody away and people who really wanted to be friends ended up putting the phone down on her. It seemed to me as if she had to ape feelings and behaviour, like Ripley. Of course sometimes having no sense of social behaviour can be charming, but in her case it was alarming. I remember once, when she was trying to have a dinner party with people she barely knew, she deliberately leaned towards the candle on the table and set fire to her hair. People didn't know what to do as it was a very hostile act and the smell of singeing and burning filled the room.	relationship behaviour incapable social-behaviour autism unbalanced hostile misanthropy	Andrew Wilson
706046b	I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas, there was no drinking, and mercifully, nobody talked about love.	autism nerdiness nerds nerd modernity	Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.

Matthew Dicks

4abe5b1

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

autism cats

Jodi Picoult

bd7f3b5

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

poetry wisdom details autism wisdom-vs-nerds nerdiness intuition nerds nerd

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

66dd6a1

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

humor intelligence wisdom autism wisdom-vs-nerdiness sense-of-humor nerds nerd wit

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

987e0de

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

fiction sparks autism nicholas

Nicholas Sparks

e0f8aea

I've met so many parents of the kids who are on the low end of the autism spectrum, kids who are diametrically opposed to Jacob, with his Asperger's. They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else but truly doesn't know how.

aspergers-syndrome disability autism

Jodi Picoult

335e940

Also I didn't habe 20/20 vision whch you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

truth astronaut autism belief wishes

Mark Haddon

507b397

There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself.

autism

Jodi Picoult

8bbc4d5

This is where I go, when I go: It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through. I'm there, but I'm not there. I am pounding to be let out, but nobody can hear me. This is where I go, when I go: To a country where everyone's face looks different from mine, and the language is the act of not speaking, and noise is everywhere in the air we breathe. I am doing what the Romans do in Rome; I am trying to communicate, but no one has bothered to tell me that these people cannot hear. This is where I go, when I go: Somewhere completely, unutterably orange. This is where I go, when I go: To the place where my body becomes a piano full of black keys only--the sharps and the flats, when everyone know that to play a song other people want to hear, you need some white keys. This is why I come back: To find those white keys.

autism

Jodi Picoult

f1afd0e

[Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much noise and she just could not handle the supermarket. She continually jumped, afraid that someone might recognise or touch her. She could not make the simplest of decisions - which type of bread did she want, or what kind of salami? I tried to do the shopping as quickly as possible, but at the check-out she started to panic. She took out her wallet, knocked off her glasses, dropped the money on the floor, stuff was going all over the place.

money people fear asperger-s asperger-s-syndrome aspergers aspergers-syndrome check-out jump jumped recognise sensory-stimulation quickly wallet stuff supermarket overwhelmed autism glasses shopping decision panic decisions noise touch

Andrew Wilson

3af427d

[Patricia Highsmith] was an extremely unbalanced person, extremely hostile and misanthropic and totally incapable of any kind of relationship, not just intimate ones. I felt sorry for her, because it wasn't her fault. There was something in her early days or whatever that made her incapable. She drove everybody away and people who really wanted to be friends ended up putting the phone down on her. It seemed to me as if she had to ape feelings and behaviour, like Ripley. Of course sometimes having no sense of social behaviour can be charming, but in her case it was alarming. I remember once, when she was trying to have a dinner party with people she barely knew, she deliberately leaned towards the candle on the table and set fire to her hair. People didn't know what to do as it was a very hostile act and the smell of singeing and burning filled the room.

relationship behaviour incapable social-behaviour autism unbalanced hostile misanthropy

Andrew    Wilson

706046b

I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas, there was no drinking, and mercifully, nobody talked about love.

autism nerdiness nerds nerd modernity

Nassim Nicholas Taleb