Cynthia

“A lot of people assume I’m comically exaggerating this point, but the only people who really think that are the people who don’t have an anxiety disorder. The rest of you are nodding your head in agreement because you, too, have been stricken by this rather shitty disorder that makes an e-mail conversation (which should take only minutes) stretch on for hours of rewrites.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

“Had I not been drawn out by interested grown-ups, I might well have drifted farther into the world of autism. I might have ceased to communicate.”
― John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

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

“I believe that some kids who are in the middle to more high-functioning range of the autism continuum, like me, do not receive the proper stimulation and end up turning inward to such an extent that they can’t function in society, even though they may be incredibly brilliant in some narrowly defined field, like abstract mathematics.”
― John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's