Sloth Man

“What I enjoy is music since it’s a rich world of story in sound. I love instrumental pieces, especially classical. I would love if others listened with me. I like to walk, or scooter, or ride my bike. I need to move and to release energy kinesthetically. I love swimming, to jump on a trampoline, and recently to work out. If someone played with me this way, I’d try to follow. I can’t explain why my senses prefer movement, but I’m resigned to it. I’m interested in cooking too, so I enjoy doing that.”
― Ido Kedar, Ido in Autismland: Climbing Out of Autism's Silent Prison

“All art is, indeed, a monotony in external things for the sake of an interior variety, a sacrifice of gross effects to subtle effects, an asceticism of the imagination.”
― W.B. Yeats, Ideas of Good and Evil

“The “experts” mostly never get it right. They assume we are some autistic, retarded stim-machine, not a trapped, thinking person who has a shitty neurological illness. They need to limit our behaviors and stop the impulsive acts, I know. Still, it would be so nice if they realized how intact our minds were.”
― Ido Kedar, Ido in Autismland: Climbing Out of Autism's Silent Prison

“It’s a big leap to throw a basketball into a basket if I struggle to feel my arms’ positions, so I miss over and over. The expert tells my aide that I’m lazy and I feel so mad. He really has no clue.”
― Ido Kedar, Ido in Autismland: Climbing Out of Autism's Silent Prison