One day, you’re an award-winning communications professional who decides to quit a high-paying, benefit-rich job to start your own company. Three weeks later, your wife tells you your 13-month-old son has autism, and you start a ten-year journey that teaches you pretty much everything you ever thought you knew about communication was wrong …
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12. So how does it feel to be autistic when you are
overstimulated? It feels like: 20 cologne smells (all
people around you are wearing different things, etc.
Autistics smell all of it), like hundreds of kids
running around you asking you questions in
different languages, like you’re sitting in a chair that
is missing one leg and trying to balance it while all
that is going on, and lights flickering…too much,
hence why autistics have Meltdowns.
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Kristina DesJardins
Author, Autist
24. And God is able to bless you
abundantly, so that in all
things at all times, having all
that you need, you will
abound in every good work.
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2 Corinthians 9:8
43. By autistic standards, the “normal” brain is
easily distractible, is obsessively social, and
suffers from a deficit of attention to detail
and routine. Thus people on the spectrum
experience the neurotypical world as
relentlessly unpredictable and chaotic,
perpetually turned up too loud, and full of
people who have little respect for personal
space.
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Steve Silberman
58. Tony Schwartz
New York Times, 11/28/15
According to one recent survey [by Adobe], the average white-
collar worker spends about six hours a day on email. That
doesn’t count time online spent shopping, searching or keeping
up with social media.
The brain’s craving for novelty, constant stimulation and
immediate gratification creates something called a
“compulsion loop.” Like lab rats and drug addicts, we need
more and more to get the same effect.
Endless access to new information also easily overloads our
working memory. When we reach cognitive overload, our ability
to transfer learning to long-term memory significantly
deteriorates. It’s as if our brain has become a full cup of water
and anything more poured into it starts to spill out.
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61. There's no question whatsoever that
multitasking, especially among those who do it
the most, is at the very least ineffective and at
the worst, harmful.
Basically, they are worse at most of the kinds
of thinking not only required for multitasking
but what we generally think of as involving
deep thought.
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Dr. Clifford Nass
Stanford University
74. The goal of life is to take
everything that made you weird
as a kid and get people to pay
you money for it as an adult.
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David Freeman
Screenwriter
75. Why is it everybody wants their
children to be normal, but no
one wants them to be
average?
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Roy H. Williams
CEO, Williams Marketing
79. For too long, we've assumed that there
is a single template for human nature,
which is why we diagnose most
deviations as disorders. But the reality is
that there are many different kinds of
minds. And that's a very good thing.
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Jonah Lehrer
Wall Street Journal, 3/31/12
80.
81. I’ve learned that every human being, with or
without disabilities, needs to strive to do their
best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive
at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is
normal— so we can’t know for sure what your
“normal” is even like. But so long as we can
learn to love ourselves, I’m not sure how much it
matters whether we’re normal or autistic.
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Naoki Higashida
The Reason I Jump