“Moral: don’t play with savage things that are stronger than you are.”
― A Practical Guide to Conquering the World
― A Practical Guide to Conquering the World
“I made friends by drinking. Alcohol gave me dating and adventures and sex. Without it, all of these things are much harder, some of them impossible. I don’t leave the house very much anymore. In a lot of ways, I became a more autistic person when I got sober.” The flip side of this can sometimes be true. In order to get sober, sometimes you have to be willing to be more Autistic.”
― Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
― Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“If someone were to choose to be gay, that wouldn’t be a problem, because being gay is good. Similarly, Autistic people deserve acceptance, not because we can’t help but have the brains we have, but because being Autistic is good.”
― Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
― Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
“I wasn’t raised or ‘socialized’ as an Autistic girl. I was raised as a weird kid, and a gender failure.”
― Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
― Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
Beck’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Beck’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Classics, Crime, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Horror, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Science, and Young-adult
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