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“In a noisy place I can’t understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.”
― Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
― Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
“DIFFERENT NOT LESS”
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“The word “autism” still conveys a fixed and dreadful meaning to most people—they visualize a child mute, rocking, screaming, inaccessible, cut off from human contact. And we almost always speak of autistic children, never of autistic adults, as if such children never grew up, or were somehow mysteriously spirited off the planet, out of society.”
― Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
― Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
“[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.”
― Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
― Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
“Animals like novelty if they can choose to investigate it; they fear novelty if you shove it in their faces.”
― Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals – A NYT Bestseller on the Emotional Needs of Dogs, Cats, Horses, and Zoo Creatures
― Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals – A NYT Bestseller on the Emotional Needs of Dogs, Cats, Horses, and Zoo Creatures
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