"When I was small, I didn't even know that I was a kid with special needs. Â How did I find out? By other people telling me that I was different from everyone else, and that this was a problem."

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Source : Naoki Higashida (2013). “The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism”, p.2, Hachette UK

Naoki Higashida

#Kids Quotes #People Quotes #Special Quotes

“True interactivity is not about clicking on icons or downloading files, it's about encouraging communication.”
“There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.”

Source : Donald Davidson (2001). “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays”, p.208, Clarendon Press
“I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.”
“Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.”
“Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.”
“There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.”
“Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also . . .”
“I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.”

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