Asta Schmitz

“I actually think a lot of this has to do with the way that we label mental illness. ‘You are depressed’, ‘You are anorexic’, ‘You are Borderline’. You don’t turn around to someone with cancer and say ‘You are cancer’, or to someone who has migraines and say ‘You are a headache’. Is it any wonder that people who are experiencing mental illness struggle to understand the difference between this issue they are up against and who they are as a person?”
― Jazz Thornton, Stop Surviving Start Fighting

“By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek.”
― Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

“Do you know why we have the sunflowers? It’s not because Vincent van Gogh suffered. It’s because Vincent van Gogh had a brother who loved him. Through all the pain, he had a tether, a connection to the world. And that is the focus of the story we need – connection.”
― Hannah Gadsby

“Zo gaat het altijd voort en altijd rond, het ene maakt plaats voor het ander, en staat ge nu met uw tien geboden in het haar of op uwe vinger te zuigen, de 'waarom' komt ge toch niet te weten.”
― Felix Timmermans, Pallieter