David Fusilier

“But for most masked Autistic people, it’s downright terrifying to stand up for yourself. We tend to default to people pleasing, smiling, and laughing uncomfortably through social difficulty, and to do so in such a reflexive way that it’s as if our true feelings and preferences disappear when other people are around.”
― Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

“So even if it stinks, there’s nothing you can do but to try to blend in and do your best to look like what everyone wants you to be: nice. polite. happy. quiet. Normal. A good little human.”
― Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

“I feel safe with my sunglasses on, protected by my earplugs, like I’m walking inside a clear force field.”
― Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

“every great artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty,”
― Robert Henri, The Art Spirit