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Post quotes here! They can be Asperger's Syndrome quotes, quotes that have to do with yourself, or quotes about anything! I'll even post some, as soon as I think of some good ones...

Here's my favourite quote, from me... lol.

Without the weird people, how would the normal people know they were normal?

HAHAHA... that's sooo true. Without a basis for relative comparison, how can anything like that be measured? We might as well all be giants were it not for the superstars of the NBA!

If everyone were the same, you could say that everyone is normal because they are all the same, but woul you really have that concept to think about, since everyone is the same anyway?

Without the weird people, how would the normal people know they were normal?
I totally agree with that. In fact, the world "normal" is overused. "You're not normal !", "That is not normal !", "Well, it is normal.". I have heard them a lot, but what does "normal" mean ? Normality is a subjective thing ; it is just what you make it.

I like quotes but so far, I actually have not found a lot of quotes about autism or Asperger, besides my signature "Being different is a gift, not a burden.", but it is not specifically about being in the autism spectrum.

I did a research on a French website which claims to have a database of 60,000 quotations and there was no result.

Loy

These quotes are great! I got one for you:

I'm not weird! I'm an aspie!

Mich

I'm not weird. I'm an aspie.

I like this one.

I will try to look for more.

Loy

nice person....wrong planet
(off a t-shirt I have- surprisingly nothing to do with asperger's!)

why be normal?

(off a badge)

everyone is different which must mean there is no such thing as normal. But if everyone is different then it must be normal to be different. Is there such thing as normal?

This is not the real life but a test. If this was the real life we would have been given instructions as to where to go and what to do next. (anon)

"I'm not insulted by people calling me weird. I'm insulted by them calling me normal!"

Mich

"All thinking beings are different, and at bottom they are all alike by the gift of thought and of desires." -- Micromegas (Voltaire)

"I don't wish I were normal. I wish the world were such that I could function in it as I am true to myself." -- Starling

I keep a huge quotes file of some of my favorites, and yes blatant narcissist that I am many of mine are in there. n.n On my website you can see some of them!

I love that! One I saw on a t-shirt was:
"You laugh because I'm different; I laugh because you're all the same."

Sometimes, I just shout, in public places, "I'M WEEEIRD!! !" in the, well, *weirdest* way possible. I'll have to post a sound clip sometime, it's really funny.

As one person I worked with, put it in a kind, non-insulting way....

"Scott, you know your a repository of useless information.."

Thanks.

Mich

Here are some quotes from a couple of random quotefiles I keep:

Autism-related (about autism or by autistic people)

"For most of us, 'cure' sounds exactly like 'kill the person you are, but animate your body with some alien force.' For most of us 'prevention' sounds exactly like 'genocide'." -Laura Tisoncik

"Pale imitations of normalcy aren't worth any of my time and effort at all." -Jim Sinclair

"All people are real, in the deepest sense of that word. That means there is no such thing as a non-human human." -Eugene Marcus

"For an autistic, being an inspiration thus far means: 'Good for you, you've learned to extinguish your personality for my comfort!'" -Denise DeGraf

"I was born to be an unusual human, and experience thus far has proven this to be so.... I have landed on earth to be myself and to live in the rhythm and lyrics of my uniqueness." -Michael J. O'Reilly

"I am one of the forgotten ones who refuses to be forgotten." -Michael J. O'Reilly

"Growing up is no fun without meowing." -Jennifer Fan

"Nobody achieves sainthood by having an autistic kid." -Laura Tisoncik

"I know of no place where someone who caused great pain to a dog, in ways that would be considered torture by most people, and eventually killing the dog would not face criminal charges. Yet it is not unusual for a murderer of an autistic to face no charges." -Joel Smith

"In the U.S., it used to be accepted as part of the democratic process -- a necessary part of that process -- for people to have and to discuss a variety of opinions/perspectives on any given topic. But now, psychology has replaced civil/political culture to such an extent that the primary objective is 'do not hurt anybody's feelings.'" -Jane Meyerding

Other quotes

"Social movements have always needed to say what to a lot of people would be unspeakable. When we stop being able to say those things, we're no longer at the cutting edge of anything. We've been bought and sold." -Bonnie Burstow

"One of the difficulties, I think, is that there's a large part of the movement that wants to look respectable. And if that's what you want, you tend to have a lot of trouble knowing when you're being co-opted. And the hard-core, real stuff can fall by the wayside." -Bonnie Burstow

"When I spoke about having been locked up and how awful it was, people would be very sympathetic and say a mistake had been made in my case, as I obviously wasn't mentally ill. Even though I would explain that I had been as crazy as anyone had ever been, with all the classic signs of what is called schizophrenia, I don't think people believed me. They didn't understand. Yes, I had been mistreated as an individual, but what had happened to me was still happening to thousands of others." -Irit Shimrat

"One of the reasons I believe I was able to escape the role of chronic patient that had been predicted for me was that I was able to leave the surveillance and control of the mental health system when I left the state hospital. Today, that's called 'falling through the cracks'" -Judi Chamberlin

"Voluntary treatment remains so only as long as the word 'no' remains unspoken; with its utterance, how easily that treatment can be made involuntary!" -Shoshanna Moser

"It's a handy trick, to have the oppressed play violins at the entrance way to new captivity." -Dave Hingsburger

"All those 'unmotivated clients' I keep hearing about are the ones who are on a silent sit-down strike about others' visions of what their life should be like." -Judi Chamberlin

"I can be as free as I want in my own life, but while my friends and others are being tortured and humiliated, my personal freedom is not good enough." -Irit Shimrat

These are some of the funnier quotes I know (not having to do with autism whatsoever). I didn't write any of these.

Normal people SCARE me

Just be glad I'm not your kid.

Hucked on foniks dun gud fer me. (Yes, that's the way it's supposed to be spelled.)

Mich