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In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.


Elder Richard G. Scott

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JOHN ELDER ROBISON There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people wi...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibit...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON I knew I was some kind of misfit, but it was becoming apparent that some of the grown-ups who smiled...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON Because speaking while watching things has always been difficult for me, learning to drive a car and...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act "normal." I can do it well enough to fool the aver...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dr...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON I have what you might call “logical empathy” for people I don’t know. That is, I can understan...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON The fact is, from an evolutionary standpoint, people have an inbred tendency to care about and prote...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON Nice people like them by children like him and raise them as pets. But he didn't want to be a pet to...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON ...delineated with signs reading:

TOWN OF AMHERST
WATERSHED
NO TRESPASSING
JOHN ELDER ROBISON My conversational difficulties highlight a problem Aspergians face every day. A person with an obvio...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON Last summer, when he thought I wasn't looking, I observed Cubby telling one of the neighborhood six-...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, a...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON Soon I was spending all my time in the basement, and I had moved from taking things apart to putting...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON I needed to stop forcing myself to fit into something I could never be a part of.
JOHN ELDER ROBISON Sociopath” and “psycho” were two of the most common field diagnoses for my look and expression...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON I tried to show him things, but he didn't seem to study what I showed him. Usually, he just put what...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON Asperger’s is not a disease. It’s a way of being. There is no cure, nor is there a need for one....
JOHN ELDER ROBISON It must be my logical consideration of a decision many see as purely intuitive or emotional that thr...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON