Neurodivergent Quotes

“Hateless, Undivided, Mindful And Neurodiverse - that's HUMAN.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“When you work at a convenience store, people often look down on you for working there. I find this fascinating, and I like to look them in the face when they do this to me. And as I do so I always think: that's what a human is.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“I might live in chaos, but love still anchors me.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“My imagination ignited once again. I kept staring at my reflection. My delusions of grandeur formed a shape, on their own, in my reflection—in my double reality.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“I fake being normal better than most normal people fake being sane.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“People don’t say what they mean. They say what makes them likable, and expect you to guess the rest.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood

“I take things literally. Not because I’m stupid. Because I listen.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood

“Why are autistic people called abnormal… when we’re the only ones who speak the truth?”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood

“I became the girl who made people uncomfortable just by asking them to be honest.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood

“Hateless, Undivided, Mindful And
Neurodiverse - that's HUMAN.
Mind carries its own detergent,
stay woke and stay human!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Jasper often felt like he had been dropped into a life-size board game without anyone giving him a set of rules. If he knew what was expected, he could memorize it and act accordingly. Otherwise, he invariably made a misstep.”
― Jodi Picoult, By Any Other Name

“I want out of the labels. I don’t want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable… A blank. Unknown. Undefined.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“I’ve even given Georgie his own P.O. Box so he can get mail. Sometimes I send him gifts and then I keep them for myself.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“Now, I no longer saw impossibility in the mirror.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“What I carry is mine alone. A private apocalypse, constant and precise.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“I open my eyes and the room is on fire. Completely unconcerned, I watch the fire grow larger and larger, then shrink and die out.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“I looked into the mirror and everything came alive—my delusions, my dreams were burying everything within reality.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“I’ve been able to find some meaning in schizophrenia, which helps me redefine how I see myself.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“To be fluent in a language you never wanted to learn is its own kind of grief.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood

“Autism is not a disease to be cured, autism is normal, a different kind of normal, but normal no less, and with a modest amount of care the acclimation feels less challenging.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I don't know how I ended up in a world this miserable. All this suffering just to die one day.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“This is how it begins-with shadows having conversations and a mind that can't help but to eavesdrop”
― Ptim Pellerin, Voyeur of Shadows

“I’ve known what it’s like to sit somewhere loud so you don’t have to hear yourself think.”
― B.L. Spencer, Silentwhisper

“Your child wasn't born broken.
They were born with a Ferrari engine
and bicycle brakes."

— ADHD: From Chaos to Calm”
― Gabi la abuela de Dani, ADHD: From Chaos to Calm: Heartfelt Tools to Understand Your Child's World and Raise Them with Peace

“Recovery doesn’t happen with big plans or big changes. It begins with tiny shifts.”
― Tanya Valentin, Tiny Anchors: Small Moments of Care for Parents in Burnout

“The struggle didn't leave a scar; it left a geography.”
― Brandi Lynn, Where the Broken Light Falls: An Inventory of Neurodivergence, Chronic Pain, and the Architecture of the Bone

“When everything is frightening, you have to learn to be brave.
So I learned.
And for a while, I was good at it.
Over time, things seemed to get less scary
And I found that I didn't need to be quite as brave as before.
But lately, the fear has crept back inside me and taken hold.
Where is my bravery now?
Do I have the strength to reclaim it?”
― Bex Ollerton, Lavender Clouds

“The date of birth she’d given when signing in set her age at twenty-eight but she looked younger. Her hair was long and blonde with streaks of pink, a soft cerise that happened to match the fluffy cowgirl boots she was wearing.”
― Elle McNicoll, Unapologetic Love Story

“Being autistic meant she was a vegetable in the fruit bowl. Social interactions could be dire if the other person was able to sense she was different. Events like the Hathaway Dinner were full of hungry piranhas and Raina didn’t fancy being a nice juicy morsel for them to devour. She’d learned to mask but, at best, that only made her feel like a piece of crystallized fruit in the bowl. Something that looked exactly the same, but don’t bite into it. The inside isn’t what you’re expecting.”
― Elle McNicoll, Unapologetic Love Story

“He probably relied on AI for all of his conversation starters tonight and you’ve just shut him down entirely. He’ll be licking his wounds over the girl who played hard-to-get all night now.’
‘Woman. And I don’t play hard to get,’ Raina said, regarding him coolly. ‘Men play easy-to-resist.”
― Elle McNicoll, Unapologetic Love Story