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“My alphabet hates itself. Like ... imagine someone says, ‘Think outside the box.â€� My hyperactive mind creates a sphere and laughs at the box and researches for hours on end how much better spheres are. Then my Autism freaks out that I broke the rules without realising there were any, and wonders why we are supposed to think
inside cardboard boxes in the first place. Surely being inside cardboard boxes isn’t comfortable.”
― Anna Whateley

“You may have different needs
than some folks in your class,
but that doesn't make you the ­«wrong» version
and other people the «normal» version.
You are Selah.
And you are not the only one
feeling these things.”
― Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

“[Epilepsy] gave her an adversity to fight against. It had shaped her personality, the need to be careful and secretive, and the ability to see things a bit differently from the neurotypical. She granted that this feeling of having a broken brain that required her to be sensitive, to look always inward to survive, might be why she turned artist.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“Apparently, letters mean you should change. I need to learn a lot of rules instead of going to the park. I like rules. I don't like talking about rules.”
― Anna Whateley, Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal

“A diagnosis is not a prediction. It doesn’t tell you what’s possible. It doesn’t change you, your colleague, your child, or your friend. It just opens up tricks and tools to thrive.”
― Jolene Stockman, Notes for Neuro Navigators: The Allies' Quick-Start Guide to Championing Neurodivergent Brains

“They often took a difficulty I had and turned it into an amusing little anecdote. They would take a deadly seriousness, my seriousness, and turn it into a great laugh that they would then let out into the room. What kind of people were they to do that? The amusing anecdote had sharp edges, flew into me and scratched my soul.”
― Gunilla Gerland, A Real Person: Life on the Outside

“I always had to pretend back then," he said. "Trying to act the way I was supposed to, to understand what people wanted from me. Alone is not synonymous with lonely. Out in the world, everyone tells you to just be yourself but then punishes you if you are. And yet they are right. Alone I can be myself.”
― Maria Romasco Moore, I Am the Ghost in Your House

“It must be exhausting to be in your head," Sam told me once. I think what he must have meant was it was exhausting for him to hear about it. I exhausted him.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“As an individual, as a person with the power to affect other people with your words, actions, and expressions every single day, you can give people who see the world differently the gift of accepting who and how they are.”
― Jolene Stockman, Notes for Neuro Navigators: The Allies' Quick-Start Guide to Championing Neurodivergent Brains

“I like that I have ten things on the go, all at once. I like that I'm always planning for the next thing. I like that I bring a high energy to my life, that I see it as a challenge. I like that my favourite thing to do on the flight home is to look at the airline route map to pick my next destination.”
― Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

“Divergent Dynamite
(The Sonnet)

You only know my infinite radiance,
you got no clue to my innate hurricane.
Day in and day out I struggle autistic,
Genius is outcome of a mind broken.

There are cracks across my heart,
nothing can bar the pouring rays.
Light is but suffering harnessed,
Genius is brokenness harnessed.

There is no end to my exuberance,
limits of typicals don't apply to me.
I am but an enigma of unbending tenacity,
every breath is testament to impossibility.

Divergence is nature's way to expansion.
Divergent dynamite I, am living evolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“It must be exhausting to be in your head," Sam told me once. I think what he must have meant was it was exhausting for him to hear about it. I exhausted him.
-Cackle by Kim Harrison”
― Kim Harrison

“As a community of witches we should be mindful of those who are neurodivergent, and be aware that not all the same techniques and tactics are going to work for everyone in the same manner.”
― Mat Auryn, Mastering Magick: A Course in Spellcasting for the Psychic Witch

“Sie würde ihn in ihr Chaos lassen, etwas, das sie seit Kindheit an versuchte so gut zu verstecken, wie sie nur konnte. Ärzte, Lehrer, Therapeuten kamen an mit Begriffen wie ADHS, sprachen von autistischen Zügen, überlegten ob depressiv oder traumatisiert - Mona nannte es ihr Ich. Und das war in einer so auf Anpassung achtenden Gesellschaft eingesperrt, wie Balthasar es als Gott war.”
― I.B. Zimmermann, Zwischen Himmel und Hölle

“When feelings go on overload,
I pause and breathe
and all is . . . slowed.”
― Jolene Gutiérrez, Too Much!: An Overwhelming Day

“Mi ritroverò accerchiato da persone che si chiedono a vicenda perché me ne stia in un angolo senza rivolgere parola a nessuno. Io mi sto divertendo ad ascoltare musica, anche se non è la stessa che sento quando sono solo; non è male stare accanto a persone nuove, è solo stancante. Ma il mio viso non si piega per dimostrarlo e le persone non mi credono quando dico la verità.”
― Nora Cenere, La costellazione del cane

“Our brains are sending sparks in different directions and sometimes they end up in the wrong place, but sometimes they end up in incredible places.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic

“To be honest, he hadn't even realized they'd fought until he got to Ben's place. Dallin had grown up with arguments that looked more like two people who were actually disagreeing. His father would raise his voice; his mother would cry—or his mother would raise her voice, and his father would slam a door. They didn't fight a lot, especially not compared to some of his friends' parents, but they fought like normal people. William couldn't even fight normal.”
― Lyn Gala, Two Steps Back

“She liked to disappear. Even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden

“Identifying as neurodivergent isn't just another label; it's also an identity, it's a reclamation, it's a song. When we call ourselves neurodivergent, we are reclaiming our differences that society calls abnormal or wrong. When we call ourselves neurodivergent, we are challenging you to consider what 'normal' actually means and perhaps even realize that maybe our normal isn't your normal. When we call ourselves neurodivergent, we are rejecting the concept of disorders.”
― Sonny Jane Wise, We're All Neurodiverse

“Neuro Navigator: A person who may not have a neurodivergent brain, but loves and empowers someone who does. See also: Unconditional love.”
― Jolene Stockman, Notes for Neuro Navigators: The Allies' Quick-Start Guide to Championing Neurodivergent Brains

“In a family of warmth, I was the strange, cold one- the one who could decipher textbooks and equations but struggled to decipher the exact cadence of a voice that made a name a term of endearment, not the pattern of a touch that made it a caress.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“But I find being around people so hard. Any people. There's all this noise and light and color and sensation, all the time, and I don't know how to read tone or emotions or jokes or sarcasm or flirting. It's like all the things that everyone else can do automatically, I have to do manually. And I get overwhelmed. Constantly. That's the face you're seeing. It's me, trying to process everything at once.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“I'm on the spectrum," I say with a jolt. "Derek and Jack were right."
"They were not." Artemis scowls. "That's a euphemism. They don't want to say autistic because they think it's rude. It is not rude."
"It's not?" I say distantly, observing my brain shift again.
"Nope. People think autism is some kind of error, and it's not. You're not broken or 'disordered,' or whatever they say on their little bits of paper. That just means 'not exactly like me.' Which--" Artemis points at the folder "--I think you'll see is one of the many things Mum wrote in the margins, along with the words go to hell, highlighted in pink. Autism is just a different wiring. You're built in alternative neurological software, from the ground up. Every single part of you. And it's..."
"Colorful and loud?" I guess, and Artemis laughs.
"I was going to say brilliant," she says. "But, yeah, I'd imagine that too. Although I don't know why anyone is surprised at how the world treats you. This has never really been a planet that embraces difference.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“This book does not represent autism, and neither I nor Cassie represent autistic people. We are simply individual voices in a choir of millions of amazing neurodivergent people, all with our own experiences, or own ways of seeing the world, our own ways of existing. I cannot speak for anyone but myself, and I would not want to try. So, whether you enjoyed this book or not, whether you see yourself represented in this story or not, I urge you to seek out other autistic voices.
We are beautiful, we are unique, and we are legion.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“But for the outcasts like me, the ones who don't fit the box, the only words that remind me I'm human are my own.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Queen of Hearts

“Genius is outcome of a mind broken.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee