"People with autism never, ever feel at ease, wherever we are. Because of this, we wander off - or run away - in search of some location where we do feel at ease. While we're on this search, it doesn't occur to us to consider how or where we're going to end up. We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world."

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”, Hachette UK

Naoki Higashida

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“Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.”
“It's all we ever wantedAnd all we'll ever needAnd now it's slipping through our fingersFaster than the speed of night.”
“Just because you don't have a prince, doesn't mean your not a princess.”
“A policemans job is only easy in a police state.”
“We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone.”
“It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any Government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to re-write the lexicon. It will not do.”

Source : "To an understanding of marriage as merely the end-point of romance". Daily Hansard - Debate, publications.parliament.uk. February 5, 2013.
“The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.”

Source : 1895 Sermon in Wisconsin, c.13 Jan.
“Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.”

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