"One girl said I was like a Jew that sympathized with Nazis and I would gladly jump into crematorium."

“Hopefully on my tombstone they will write, "We don't need no stinkin’ neurodiversity.”

“Twiddling is one of my autistic things. I do it to calm me down. I twiddle frantically for a while, and I fantasize about all kinds of things while I twiddle.”

“I don't have a visual imagination. Please, that trivializes my suffering. She blows her own horn all the time.”

“Usually, I was aware that other kids were bullying me, except occasionally when some girls in junior high… pretended to flirt with me and for a while. I did not understand they were making fun of me.”

“Worst of all, it provides fodder for the special educators, special education attorneys, ABA therapists etc. to legitimize their profits and to encourage the false hope and tears for toasted snow that so many parents of these children have.”

“On my blog I attempt to dispute these notions by pointing out their failure to consider the long-term effects of autism on high-functioning autistics such as myself—let alone what should be done for the low-functioning autistics who cannot speak, or the “headbangers.”