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“Autistic thinking is always detailed and specific. Teachers and parents need to help both children and adults with autism take all the little details they have in their head and put them into categories to form concepts and promote generalization.”
― Temple Grandin, The Way I See It

“Jealousy—at least as far as he understood it from his dream—was the most hopeless prison in the world. Jealousy was not a place he was forced into by someone else, but a jail in which the inmate entered voluntarily, locked the door, and threw away the key. And not another soul in the world knew he was locked inside. Of course if he wanted to escape he could do so. The prison, was after all, his own heart. But he couldn't make that decision. His heart was as hard as a stone wall. This was the very essence of jealousy.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“So it’s not that autistics don’t respond to eye contact, it’s that their response is the opposite of neurotypicals’.”
― Temple Grandin, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

“I’ll stay till the wind changes,” she said”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins