Ioannis Williams

“I made friends by drinking. Alcohol gave me dating and adventures and sex. Without it, all of these things are much harder, some of them impossible. I don’t leave the house very much anymore. In a lot of ways, I became a more autistic person when I got sober.” The flip side of this can sometimes be true. In order to get sober, sometimes you have to be willing to be more Autistic.”
― Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”
― H.L. Mencken

“A Past is always ‘venerable’; tampering with it is ‘sacrilegious’; to neglect it is ‘inhuman’.”
― Alexandre Kojève, The Notion of Authority: A Brief Presentation

“We tend to be both easily disturbed by sound in our environment, and unable to tell when a noise actually merits our attention, at the same time.[44] I often brute-force my way into paying attention to something by shutting the rest of the world out. I think it’s also likely that lifelong masking has rendered me hypervigilant, almost as a trauma response. My sensory system is used to scanning the environment, to determine whether I’m alone and thus “safe” enough to be myself. Trauma survivors often become hypervigilant, which tends to come with intense sensory issues.[45] Some researchers have also theorized that sensory issues in Autistics are, at least in part, caused by the anxiety and hypervigilance we experience from living in a world that doesn’t accommodate us, and often treats us with hostility.[46]”
― Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity