Tony Attwood Quotes

#1. I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.

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#2. The 'verbalizers' may eventually be successful in careers where verbal abilities are an advantage, for example journalism or the legal professions,

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#3. Being alone can be a very effective way of calming down and is also enjoyable, especially if engaged in a special interest, one of the greatest pleasures in life for someone with Asperger's syndrome.

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#4. We can also express it like this: the difficulties, which this boy has with himself as well as with his relationship to the world, are the price he has to pay for his special gifts. (Asperger 1938, p.2)

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#5. Bill Gates said, 'Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

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#6. I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!

Lynda Barry

#7. Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

Hugo Weaving

#8. flute. As I stood in the doorway, he lingered over it, then, carefully rewrapping it, placed it in his box of treasured things. I never saw the flute again. *

Mildred D. Taylor

#9. I know of several children and adults (with Asperger's Syndrome) who have reported a considerable reduction in visual sensitivity and sensory overload when wearing Irlen lenses.

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#10. Moorehouse and Rogers, one of whom was the legendary Collins Rappaport as second chair. Parisi, as co-counsel to the law firm, would be first chair, and he would be doing hand-to-hand combat with her. Yuki

James Patterson

#11. Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.

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#12. Yoga is the perfect way to de-stress and work out at the same time.

Shannon Elizabeth

#13. Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in her keynote speech to the United Nations, 12th July 2013.

Malala Yousafzai

#14. From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.

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#15. I think I just became psychic," he said. "Holy crap.

Rachel Caine

#16. Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.

Pietro Metastasio

#17. I've come to learn two truths about love. One: The fall is the easy part. Two: It's best not to fall.

Laura Miller

#18. We are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#19. It seemed that other people's "normality" was the road to my insanity

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#20. Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.

Patrick Henry Hughes

#21. I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.

Brendon Urie

#22. As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things. Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and that's it.

Robert Greene

#23. Girls are generally recognized as superior mimics. Those with [Asperger's Syndrome] hold back and observe until they learn the 'rules', then imitate their way through social situations.

Tony Attwood