If I hadn’t left at that moment, I knew I would have stayed forever.
Anger, it turns out, is a renewable source of fuel.
He wished that he could keep getting up morning after morning, with the world remaining unchanged. That was the thing about feeling like life was good. Even when it was – especially when it was – you knew you had something to lose.
There were some memories, she knew, you could run from forever and never shake. Josie.
Taking a deep breath, I shake my head and find Judge staring at me. “Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans,” I say. “Once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.
I look at her. “The first one sounds fair. The second one is fair. It’s equal to give a printed test to two kids. But if one’s blind and one’s sighted, that’s not true. You ought to give one a Braille test and one a printed test, which both cover the same material. All.
Maybe it was because I wanted to control one part of me that had been uncontrollable, so the rest of me would fall into line.
Babies are such blank slates. They don’t come into this world with the assumptions their parents have made, or the promises their church will give, or the ability to sort people into groups they like and don’t like.
I wonder how someone can leave in the blink of an eye without you even noticing.
Could you hate your son for what he had done, and still love him for who he had been? The.
Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.” I look at her. “The first one sounds fair. The second one is fair. It’s equal to give a printed test to two kids. But if one’s blind and one’s sighted, that’s not true. You ought to give one a Braille test and one a printed test, which both cover the same material.
My sister likes to play the victim. We’ve had some pretty heated exchanges about that before. If you don’t want to be seen as a stereotype, then the way I see it, don’t be one. But to my sister, that means playing a white man’s game, and being who they want her to be, instead of being unapologetically herself.
Now I know: adulthood is a line drawn in the sand. At some point, your child will be standing on the other side.
In my mind, Asperger’s isn’t a label to describe the traits Jacob has, but rather the ones he lost.
I glance at the house, dark and empty. “Am I my sister’s keeper?” I say. Then I grin at her. “If you feel like waiting, you can come up and see my etchings.
One person’s disability is another person’s culture.” As.
In brain scans, music lights up the medial prefrontal cortex and triggers a memory that starts playing in your mind. All of a sudden you can see a place, a person, an incident. The strongest responses to music – the ones that elicit vivid memories – cause the greatest activity on brain scans.
Everyone comes with a label, it’s up to you to peel it off.
Could something that looked so wrong on the outside turn out to be undeniably right? My.
Once, when her brothers had been fighting over who got more spaghetti for dinner, her mother had said, You don’t look at another person’s plate to see if they have more than you. You look to see if they have enough.