Eccentricity and Positive Madness
People who are interested in autism will find here an introduction to articulate and creative voices that have much to teach us about their world if only we would listen.
“The Mirror of the Mind—the unique and best thing in the world.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.”
Sherwood Anderson
Lewis Carroll
"The first impression produced on you
when you get inside is one of bewilderment."
“It is easy to work when the soul is at play.”
Emily Dickinson
Temple Grandin
“I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something.”
“It is not drawn on any map—true places never are.”
Herman Melville
“…when I could not sleep, I wrote in the dark.”
Henry David Thoreau
Opal Whiteley
“I wonder if honeysuckles
grow about the gates of heaven."
“And which of these is the Island of Content?”
William Butler Yeats
“We have so much to learn by studying under-represented groups of writers to see how their writing both resembles and departs from majority culture.”
— Dr. Julie Brown