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• Aspergirls do not thrive under scrutiny, if it has just the slightest bit of hostility in it. Whether from our peers or teachers, if we are looked at with an unfriendly, intimidating, or threatening eye, we fold. Alone, we are talented, graceful, witty, and smart, but under such circumstances we curl up like hedgehogs. We‘re as sensitive emotionall...
• Autistic people have an innocence, a childlike quality, regardless of age or education. This is very obvious when we are anxious and upset.
• You grace the world with your presence, and there will be people who appreciate you. As you get older I hope that your confidence increases rather than decreases and that you don‘t shut yourself away in your bedroom as so many of us do, watching films or reading books every night because we know what the world consists of and we don‘t like it.
• It‘s funny, but a dysfunctional family, if they don‘t know they‘re dysfunctional, can make you feel like the dysfunctional one because you don‘t fit in. I firmly believe that most of the psychological problems that seem to come with AS have more to do with non-acceptance, bullying, and blaming than anything else.
• Even going pee when there are others in adjacent stalls, just blowing our noses, can feel like something shameful and horrifying. How much so will have a lot to do with our parents and how much information we are given to prepare and demystify things for us. And how open others in our household are.