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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