Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.
When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.
Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.
By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.
There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers. . . when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.
I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.
Pressure is calming to the nervous system.
I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.
A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.
There are moments, moments of fun but it's never necessarily a winkwink. It's just interesting and odd and crazy things happen inside the world just like a crazy thing happened inside our world. So we don't shy away from that stuff. We take semi-ordinary characters, even though they have their own skill sets, we take those guys and we drop them into extraordinary situations and watch how the get out of them.
Sanctification is not regeneration.