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One flesh. Or, if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour.
“The concepts of “work-life” balance and “burnout” just don’t always translate to Autistic people’s schedules in the ways neurotypicals might expect.”
― Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
― Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
“Relationships are built in the silences.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?”
― John Dies at the End
― John Dies at the End
“Some are assumed to be too “high functioning” to need accommodations, but actually suffer deeply from a lack of accessibility and support.”
― Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
― Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
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