“I wasn’t like the other girls at school. All they did was hang around in groups and talk about boys and TV shows and clothes and stuff. Do their hair. You know. And all that ‘hi, what cool shoes, you… — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
“have to. But this apparent coldness is not a lack of empathy and feeling; it is a hypersensitivity. It is feeling too much.” — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
“People usually don’t ascend to positions of power like that by being nice.” — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
“We are the square pegs that do not neatly fit into the round holes of life without taking a battering.” — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
“All of them. I mean, they ask you a question, and they don’t want to hear the answer if it disagrees with their own… — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
“There is a screaming in my head. It is me, or some part of me that has been woken up like a kraken disturbed… — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
“Usually I would find myself having to step aside while oncoming pedestrians never deviated a centimetre from their intended path, and would have walked… — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
“Yet whenever there is uncertainty, I feel compelled to evaluate all possible outcomes. But then I feel overwhelmed.” — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
“When others are upset, I am upset too, but I do not know why. When others shout or become angry, I become afraid, fearing… — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
“When there is a lot of information bombarding us all at once, such as the sounds, movements and smells of several people, it is… — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
“Also, I do not like them touching me, and if a fat person sits next to me, they inevitably touch me. So I deliberately… — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
“Some people say ASD is ‘an empathy disorder’. We are unfeeling and uncaring, according to them. But how can they know my inner mind… — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
“She departed without saying goodbye, leaving the empty cup behind her, contrary to café regulations. What a rebel.” — Kevin Berry Copy Share Image
