The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.


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I have what you might call “logical empathy” for people I don’t know. That is, I can understan...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
The fact is, from an evolutionary standpoint, people have an inbred tendency to care about and prote...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Nice people like them by children like him and raise them as pets. But he didn't want to be a pet to...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
...delineated with signs reading:

TOWN OF AMHERST
WATERSHED
NO TRESPASSING
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
My conversational difficulties highlight a problem Aspergians face every day. A person with an obvio...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Last summer, when he thought I wasn't looking, I observed Cubby telling one of the neighborhood six-...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, a...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Soon I was spending all my time in the basement, and I had moved from taking things apart to putting...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
I needed to stop forcing myself to fit into something I could never be a part of.
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Sociopath” and “psycho” were two of the most common field diagnoses for my look and expression...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
I tried to show him things, but he didn't seem to study what I showed him. Usually, he just put what...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Asperger’s is not a disease. It’s a way of being. There is no cure, nor is there a need for one....
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
It must be my logical consideration of a decision many see as purely intuitive or emotional that thr...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
When we pulled in, the customs officer looked in the back. The back of the wagon was filled with cas...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world whe...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
As a functional Aspergian adult, one thing troubles me deeply about those kids who end up behind the...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
I used to fear barking dogs. I would cringe and say to myself, 'Nice doggie please don't bite me I'l...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
We began reading books together. He loved Dr. Seuss. I read those books so often I could turn the pa...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Life is warfare.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
If you wish to be loved; Love!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)