As soon as a child is capable of understanding, they will know they are different. Just as a diabetic needs insulin, an autistic child needs accommodations. The label gave me knowledge and self-awareness.

Steve Andrews

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Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled, you can be treated. On other occasions, labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don't really understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.

John Elder Robison

Deja de atormentarte por la reacción de los demás hacia ti.

More often than not, the thing we fear is less than half the size of the fear it creates.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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