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“emotional narratives are more important to allistics than facts.”
― Joe Biel, The Autism Relationships Handbook: How to Thrive in Friendships, Dating, and Love

“You may find that far too many people have very specific ideas and expectations of what their life will be like from a very young age and you don’t fit into that.”
― Joe Biel, The Autism Relationships Handbook: How to Thrive in Friendships, Dating, and Love

“In digital communication, Autistic people get the time we need to carefully process a message, google any terms that are unfamiliar, and carefully reflect on how we might want to respond.”
― Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

“We echo phrases from movies and TV because they help us emulate “normal” social behavior, or because we lack our own words for how we are feeling,”
― Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity