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your dreams will be reduced down to breathing, and you will be grateful | Neurodiversity

shiftjournal.com — “Neurodiversity | The thing about not-being-a-person is: They will say those people and the price of being a person is to nod and agree that yes, those people aren’t people at all. They will have no idea who they are talking to. You yourself will start to forget, too. They will say a million small things that sow the seeds for violence done against you, and you will smile and let them. You will do math, constantly. How much do I want to be a person today? How much do I want this ...View full resource at shiftjournal.com

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Must, must read: Julia Bascom, writing indelibly on "not-being-a-person" at @ShiftJa http://t.co/cuDnuzwv #autism -SR

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The Obsessive Joy of Autism | Neurodiversity

shiftjournal.com — “Neurodiversity | I am autistic. I can talk; I talked to myself for a long time before I would talk to anyone else. My sensory system is a painful mess, my grasp on language isn’t always the best, and it takes me quite some time to process social situations. I cannot yet live on my own or manage college or relationships successfully. I can explain, bemoan, and wish away a lot of things about me and my autism: my troubles finding the right words to say what I really mean, my social processing lag View full resource at shiftjournal.com

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