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Wordy Wednesday: Quotes

Welcome to Wordy Wednesday!
 
Todays subject:
 
FUN QUOTES!
 
 
I seriously don't know how I would make it through some of my days without a hefty dose of humor. I like sweet, tug-at-your-heartstrings quotes and sayings. But I prefer to laugh rather than cry (though I still do plenty of crying), and I love a good tongue-in-cheek quip with a dash of sarcasm.
 
 
So here are a few things I've found over the last few weeks that have made me smile, or even laugh out loud. Some are about Asperger's/Autism, some are about parenting, and some are just funny!

 
 

 

 
(Italics are excerpts from the source article)
 
Read the full interview here.
 
Rudy Simone, a San Francisco singer, writer and stand-up comic, didn’t learn that she was on the autism spectrum until her mid-40s. Simone has Asperger syndrome.
 
To help make up for the lack of resources available to girls with Asperger’s and their families, Simone wrote Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome. 
 
This was my favorite part of her interview:
 
"[Psychologist and Asperger's expert] Tony Attwood says, ‘You don’t suffer from Asperger’s, you suffer from other people.’ [Suffering is] only in the mirror of other people who see our uniqueness as a flaw. That’s because they’re the majority.
 
'Maybe someday being neurotypical will be a diagnosis: ‘Oh, poor thing's they have less focus and no special interests and a pathological need to socialize — maybe they need a support group.’"
 
 
 
 

 


 
Another one I stumbled upon:
 
“What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool?
 
You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.” 
 
― Temple Grandin, The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 Happy Wednesday everyone! 

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