As a functional Aspergian adult, one thing troubles me deeply about those kids who end up behind the second door. Many descriptions of autism and Asperger’s describe people like me as “not wanting contact with others” or “preferring to play alone.” I can’t speak for other kids, but I’d like to be very clear about my own feelings: I did not ever want to be alone. And all those child psychologists who said “John prefers to play by himself” were dead wrong. I played by myself because I was a failure at playing with others. I was alone as a result of my own limitations, and being alone was one of the bitterest disappointments of my young life.
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LARRY ELDER Zimbabwean children are faced with some of the worst hardships confronting children anywhere in the ... JAMES ELDER With so many economic challenges, coupled with a very high number of orphaned children ... there is ... JAMES ELDER For 12 years, we've been trying to get him back. It was good that his teaching last time was on pati... JACKI ELDER The more the American troops die, the more troops they send to die. JOE ELDER It is part of the democratic process. We say what we believe and learn what we can and then we make ... JOE ELDER In fact, ever since the war began in Iraq the parallels are quite striking, although, and also very ... JOE ELDER The happier the moment the shorter. PLINY THE ELDER The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils. PLINY THE ELDER Men are most apt to believe what they least understand. PLINY THE ELDER There is always something new out of Africa. PLINY THE ELDER An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. CATO THE ELDER Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. PLINY THE ELDER The only certainty is that nothing is certain. PLINY THE ELDER Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of liv... PLINY THE ELDER Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few. CATO THE ELDER If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave. CATO THE ELDER Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. CATO THE ELDER True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and i... PLINY THE ELDER I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. CATO THE ELDER After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. CATO THE ELDER Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others. PLINY THE ELDER Home is where the heart is. PLINY THE ELDER It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears. CATO THE ELDER I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to b... CATO THE ELDER It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. PLINY THE ELDER The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. CATO THE ELDER It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. CATO THE ELDER The master's eye is the best fertilizer. PLINY THE ELDER In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. PLINY THE ELDER Grasp the subject, the words will follow. CATO THE ELDER Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool... CATO THE ELDER We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. CATO THE ELDER Patience is the greatest of all virtues. CATO THE ELDER In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest... PLINY THE ELDER We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our fe... PLINY THE ELDER Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently,... PLINY THE ELDER Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to c... PLINY THE ELDER The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice ... PLINY THE ELDER