Top 100 Tina J. Richardson Quotes
#1. prosopagnosia is real.
If I meet you in
a different place than
I usually see you.
I won't recognise you.
I'm not rude, I have
face blindness.
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#2. Do not judge me because i am different to you, I do not judge you for being different to me.
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#3. She became an illusion of herself. It was easier to cope with people that way
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#4. Her mind interprets the world differently. She feels and sees things with a unique perspective. This is what makes her so magnificent.
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#5. When I was very young I thought I was just like everyone else. I think it took me longer than most to realize I was different and even longer to realize that being different was what made me great
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#6. I avoid the sparks in peoples eyes - it feels like it eats into my soul
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#7. She felt everything deeply,
soaking up the world like a sponge.
While slowly squeezing out her soul, leaving her drained.
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#10. Sometimes I don't have enough energy to be social. I need time alone to recover from the last time I went out.
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#11. People who stare. I ask for a little empathy. Please don't judge. Be understanding that some places will strongly affect me. My senses are heightened and i experience lights, noise and smells differently that you might. Stimming will help me regulate myself to my environment as well as calming me.
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#12. Music can enter my soul like none other. It can reach me and awaken my being
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#13. They were not brave enough to accept her as she came.
She made her own path where she found herself,
she followed it to her own people.
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#14. I find some things difficult to grasp. I need to be shown or taught a few different ways sometimes before I figure it out
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#15. I'm not damaged, I don't need fixing. I'm just different. Embrace different
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#16. people confuse me, with what they say and do. They rarely say what they mean,then they get mad at me for believing what they have said. Telling me that they didn't mean it that way or that they were joking.
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#17. Autism: I may not speak with my mouth. There are many ways to communicate. They are all valid.
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#18. Autism. STOP sugar coating it to make it easier to swallow. I don't have a superpower, sparkles or rainbows. I'm me. I need to be accepted for being me. In the world I live in, I have a disability
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#19. Do not compare yourself with others. Its our uniqueness that makes us who we are.
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#21. I don't have to look at your eyes to listen that's what
my ears are for.
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#22. Being autistic is not everything about me. Try not to define me by my diagnosis.
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#23. I want you to understand I'm not lost in my own world, I'm just hiding from yours
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#24. I don't HAVE Autism, I am Autistic. It doesn't mean I see myself as a 'disability' first and a person second. I'm me, you cannot separate 'the Autism' out of me. I'm wired this way. I was born this way. I am this way
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#25. Sensory overload - I just want to soak myself completely to rid myself of
feeling too much
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#26. She had not been herself for weeks, yet no one noticed. She knew this feeling, it creeps up like sliding slowly into the darkness. Some days she clung on, other days she let herself slip further.
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#27. She enjoyed her own company most of the time. She rarely felt the need to be around people.
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#28. Your social rules suck, if i wanted to start a conversation on the relevance of solar vs wind energy I will!
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#29. I'm not ashamed of myself I am ashamed at the people that judge me without knowledge
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#30. At times i am so focused like i have been taken over by a remote controlled computer, although not user friendly.
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#32. Being autistic doesn't make me any less human. It just makes me who I am. Just like you are.
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#34. Years of people pushing and demanding that she conform left a scar on her soul that kept her own self from emerging
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#35. Before her diagnosis, sometimes she felt like an outcast. Someone from a different world that spoke a different language. Now she knows she is an aspie. She fits in! With others just like her! It's okay to be an aspie. It's just who she is.
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#36. We fell in love instantly, sparks flew. It was like we had met before.
We had trouble understanding each other over the years. But our love has grown stronger through accepting ourselves and each other.
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#37. Everyday feels the same and yet I crave sameness.
Part of me wants to run away and be free.
I feel trapped in my life I've created to protect myself.
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#39. Communicating is the biggest thing I struggle with. People either totally misunderstand what I am saying or just don't get it. It's tiring trying to explain what you want to say over and over. Even when I rephrase it, I still find it's not how it is in my head.
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#40. I'm autistic and most of my children are autistic as well. Please don't tell me how sorry you are for me. I don't need pity. I'm just a mother who has children. Our unique identities and neurology make us who we are. We are perfectly fine just like this, thanks
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#41. Sometimes. In busy places. I may need to escape. I'm not being rude. I'm helping myself.
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#42. Thinking differently means you can work out problems in an unusual way. Just because we may do things differently it does not mean it is wrong.
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#43. I can't speak anymore, I open my mouth but nothing comes out. So many things to say. I wonder if you really want to hear it anyway?
Instead, I leave my heavy mind exploding with unfinished thoughts.
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#44. I am a whole person. I'm not a neurotypical person with an 'autism' part. I'm not a disabled neurotypical. I am a whole autisic person!.
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#45. I'm not a hero for living autistic. I'm a person just like you. Just living my life.
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#47. I am now a faded image of my former being,
I let that persona go.
I like myself for who I am and I choose to be, me.
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#48. I guess you were not my friend then, that's okay. I can see my true self, I can see yours, now. I guess that you did not look hard enough at mine. Or you would never have let me go.
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#49. As a child with Autism, I experienced life my own way. I could sense colours/sounds/objects as beams of intense sensations.
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#50. I don't know how to talk to people. Social rules are difficult to understand as they keep changing. I never know what people expect from me.
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#52. I don't play NT games, If you want me to know something tell me, simple!
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#53. I wonder if the World would feel differently about me if they could see how life feels viewing it like I do, through my eyes.
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#54. Can you accept me, can you love me? Without conditions ? Can you nurture me, can you respect me? Without conditions ? Will you embrace me as my own unique autistic self?
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#55. Please don't obsess on the number of friends i have or don't have. I'll find my own way, it will be right for me.
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#56. Autistic adults were once autistic kids. We grow up and need acceptance and understanding as well.
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#59. When my anxiety is really bad, the fast beating of my heart makes my body feel like it rocks back and forth.
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#60. Sometimes i feel upset but don't have the word to explain what really is wrong. Because most of the time I'm not sure what is actually wrong. I have trouble recognizing my emotions and feelings.
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#61. Why do I smile
and pretend
I am okay
when I'm
pissed off.
It's like I'm
scared to hurt
their feelings
even though
they have hurt mine.
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#62. I'm not a neurotypical person with an autism add on. I am autistic.
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#63. She enjoyed dark things, it was how she felt. People had pushed her there. She now enjoyed the quiet. She craves the night, the darkness where she is safe.
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#64. I find myself, wearing a mask, pretend play acting when I go out, it's the only way I can cope with it, then when I'm home I'm exhausted and stressed from trying to be someone I'm not. I over analyze the conversations I had, thinking about what I have said and done.
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#65. I take criticism to heart. The words hit me literally and it hurts. It can take me a long time to recover from it.
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#66. I sometimes shock the people around me with how I see things. I come up with very unique solutions to things. As I can picture things in my mind and move them around to design and understand them.
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#67. I like to know what's happening to prepare myself. I make up scenarios in my mind about what may happen. This helps me cope.
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#68. there was a time I was dark, sad and a recluse
I did not understand why I felt like I did.Then my life changed.
I was diagnosed and suddenly my world made sense.
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#69. Autism is not something I "have" it's not an add on. This is why I call myself autistic. Not person "with" autism.
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#70. I tried to write how I felt. The pen remained frozen. The paper stayed white and empty,
while my brain was dark and full
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#71. I am an actress of life, the world is my stage. Trained to fit in and yet I still fail.
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#74. Being autistic makes me hyper sense things in the world.
Music can intensely enter my soul piercing my inner workings like a light pulsing through me. it can be such an amazing experience
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#75. My need to be where it is quiet is a real need. The world is way too intense to cope with every day.
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#76. I wish people could read my thoughts instead of having to put them into words.
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#77. She felt lost and misunderstood. She felt like she was drowning. Overwhelmed. Unaccepted. Alone.
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#78. I think about so many things, my brain rarely shuts off. At night, my thoughts go over the day I had like replaying a movie. I try to make sense of what happened to the characters.
I'm the director, but can never reshow the edited film.
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#79. Autism does not have a look. Autism cannot be cured by discipline. Autism is not a disease. Autism is a way of being. Autism is a neurological difference. Autism is a unique way of viewing the world.
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#80. I need time where it is quiet, the world is loud enough even when no one is talking. Please respect that it's something that I must do, I don't mean to disrespect you
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#81. I wish people would see us as people first, I really dislike it when people just see 'Autism' with me and thats all i hear all the time. I'm autistic, yes. But think of me as a person always, a human like you.
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#83. Sometimes communicating feels like a never ending maze. You know what you want to say, but you can't choose the right words. Then you go around and around trying to find them. Most of the time you just give up.
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#84. Why do non autistic people have interests/hobbies. But, autistic people have obsessions?
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#85. no one can know how another person 'senses' the world. We just have to respect the person as they are. Accept their unique way of being. Embrace them for who they are not what you think they should be.
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#86. Not everyone will understand me. That's okay. I barely understand myself.
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#87. All my life I've felt different to most. This has caused me anxiety and depression over the years. It took being diagnosed at age 36 to make my life finally make sense. I fit in somewhere now. I feel like I'm not a wrong neurotypical. I'm a complete autistic
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#88. If people could see my soul without judgement. See my image as a mirror, viewing my uniqueness as the gift it truly is.
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#89. Words do hurt. They eat into my being and don't leave. They are always there just waiting to pop back up in my mind like it happened yesterday
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#90. I may look like I'm not listening but trust me I'm memorising everything .
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#91. I'm an autistic girl. I have many years to grow. I'm going to rock my life. Just watch me shine
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#92. For many people virtual friends are as important as physical friends
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#93. Sometimes I think I want to run away and disappear but what I really want is to be understood.
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#94. As an autistic, I have thoughts and ideas of my own. Not all people on the spectrum think the same.
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#95. Sometimes, I feel like I view life through a lens. It's like being part of a movie. Watching not participating.
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#96. Some things just feel so intense. I'm not
over reacting. My sensory processing
is unique to me.
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#97. I have an aspergers diagnosis and I don't give a shit what you people think. My friends are on the internet.
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#98. Autistic people view the world in a different light, in ways many could never imagine.
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#100. As a child she was unique, she was a dreamer, she lived in her own world. Where it was safe.
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