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“You spend a lot of time wondering what’s wrong without ever knowing why—and, for someone who values specificity? It produces the worst anxiety you can imagine.”
― Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism

“We construct systems, whether entirely of thought or by using some combination of thought and external manifestation, that help us to interpret data the world throws at us and also to find our place in relation to it.”
― Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism

“I still preferred the company of names, of fascinating things in the world, of words. I learned with the advent of universal internet access that my ideal medium for communication, for initial connection, was through written correspondence and chat interfaces.”
― Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism

“The names of things, specificity, mattered to me more than it seemed to matter to most other people I knew, and it was puzzling.”
― Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism