“Boys dared their friends to ask me out as a joke. Who would actually want to date the disabled girl? There was a voice in my head screaming I was a burden.”
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“Boys dared their friends to ask me out as a joke. Who would actually want to date the disabled girl? There was a voice in my head screaming I was a burden.”
“You feel invincible, and stuff like death only happens to OTHER people. My body can surely cope, the rules don’t apply to me.”
“Never let people who limit themselves limit you. Go out and get the life you want, no matter the trials and errors.”
“You’re not alone.”
“Throw out the scale, forget the degree, and stop comparing your house to the Smith’s down the street. Life isn’t defined by wins and losses, life happens during the play-by-play. And baby, you’ve already won.”
“Living undiagnosed is a never-ending spiral of suffering, heartbreak, and hurt.”
“Words heal little girls with autism, and grown women without, and connect them together from hundreds of miles away.”
“This little girl couldn’t be more than 20 pounds. She was sickly skinny and nonverbal. How could she be 6 years old? What had she been through? She smiled, her tiny teeth caked with thick plaque. I marveled.”
“Unsubscribe from the people who judge you. Unsubscribe to the idea you’re being bad if you eat bread with your salad. Unsubscribe from the need to be at a certain place by a certain age. Mental clutter is just as tiresome as the inbox clutter.”
“That last night, I said my goodbyes to him for what felt like the tenth time and prayed endlessly for his suffering to be put to rest.”