“I learned that people won’t believe me when I say I need help, and so I stopped asking. I found passive or covert ways of getting help, which ultimately led to poor self-advocacy. I learned helplessness.” — Autism Women's Network Copy Share Image
“I was the hardest working person, getting nowhere, who I knew. The older I got, the more I was able to hide. I was… — Autism Women's Network Copy Share Image
“Don’t fall into the trap of believing that if we are good at one thing, we will be good at some totally unrelated thing.… — Autism Women's Network Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of things I am not likely to ever learn how to do. Or if I learn how to do them,… — Autism Women's Network Copy Share Image
“when I was a teenager I was planning out how to live in the woods as a hermit, to avoid permanent institutionalization. And when… — Autism Women's Network Copy Share Image
“It seems that between one-third and one-sixth of autistic people lose major skills in adolescence. Of those, about half will gain the skills back… — Autism Women's Network Copy Share Image
“Just because I can explain how matrilineal descent works, doesn’t mean I can figure out what to order from a restaurant menu. Just because… — Autism Women's Network Copy Share Image
“It’s one thing to know in theory how skills work. It’s another thing to put them into practice with nobody guiding you or prompting… — Autism Women's Network Copy Share Image
“I feel intensely. I smell mold and bad food before others. I hear fluorescent lights. Clothing hurts, noises invade, colors take my breath away.… — Autism Women's Network Copy Share Image
“I learned that people won’t believe me when I say I need help, and so I stopped asking. I found passive or covert ways… — Autism Women's Network Copy Share Image
