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"To watch the leader of the most powerful nation on earth endorse and finance a genocide prompts not a passing kind of disgust or anger, but a severance. The empire may claim fear of violence because the fear of violence justifies any measure of violence in return, but this severance is of another kind: a walking away, a noninvolvement with the machinery that would produce, or allow to produce, such horror."

“Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that nonexistence is violated?”

"For me, and for countless 'high functioning' Autistics, communication and intelligence became an essential part of our masks ... though my language was highly developed, my social and emotional life was not ... I also absorbed the idea, common to many 'gifted' children, that a person's intellectual potential belongs to society, not to themselves, and they owe the world greatness to justify their oddness."