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It is not necessary to try to become the other (to become other) nor to \"make\" him in my image. 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It is not wrong to be different. 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As a child, I did imagine myself into other roles. I thought I would become normal, that someday I would be able to do what everyone else did so easily. In time, that fantasy faded. My limitations were real, immutable, thick black lines around the outline of my life. The only role I play is normal. 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That girl is a halfling, a child of an unnatural mating, an unfamiliar face in the moon.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chris Cleave", "slug": "chris-cleave", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave" }, "book": { "title": "The Other Hand", "slug": "the-other-hand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave/the-other-hand" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "otherness", "slug": "otherness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/otherness" }, { "name": "emigration", "slug": "emigration", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emigration" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Other_Hand#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:26" }, { "id": "5cc60830-df8c-4902-a9b2-445bf56b6f81", "slug": "human-variability-is-immense", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-e-nielsen/a-disability-history-of-the-united-states/human-variability-is-immense", "text": "Human variability is immense. 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It's a painful state of self-loathing and denial that warps your inner experience. Though it often feels like being \"crazy,\" it's not actually an internal neurosis. It's caused by society's repeated, often violent insistence you are not who you say you are, and that any evidence to the contrary is shameful.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Devon Price", "slug": "devon-price", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/devon-price" }, "book": { "title": "Unmasking Autism", "slug": "unmasking-autism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/devon-price/unmasking-autism" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "identity", "slug": "identity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity" }, { "name": "shame", "slug": "shame", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/shame" }, { "name": "otherness", "slug": "otherness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/otherness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Devon_Price#Conclusion:_Integration", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": 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When we stop taking an outsider's perspective of our own disability and instead center our own perspectives and needs, this becomes clear. It's not actually a bad thing that we are spirited, loud, intense, principled, or strange. These traits are merely inconvenient to systems designed by abled people that don't take our unique way of being into account. 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