Cynthia

“And Then I Got Stabbed in the Face by a Serial Killer”
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

“child psychologists who said “John prefers to play by himself” were dead wrong. I played by myself because I was a failure at playing with others. I was alone as a result of my own limitations, and being alone was one of the bitterest disappointments of my young life.”
― John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

“like abstract mathematics. Scientists have studied “brain plasticity,” the ability of the brain to reorganize neural pathways based on new experiences. It appears that different types of plasticity are dominant at different ages.”
― John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

“Tear people open when they pull out their gallbladder or remove their appendix? There’s really no other sort of surgery where the doctor prefers to just let you get torn apart rather than cut you, and I’m assuming that’s because gynecologists are just really lazy.”
― Jenny Lawson