Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

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Categorized in : Heart Sheep Fighting

Normal' is a dryer setting.

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dryers autism normal

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

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ignorance simple dark

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

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normal sometimes people

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

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matter trying world

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

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rockets initiative doe

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

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rattlesnakes drug bother

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

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autism life order

It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.

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hard different sometimes

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

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everyday real feelings

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

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cost want thinking

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

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writing jobs children

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

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taught sunday school

I used to not back down from a challenge.

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used challenges

Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes.

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eye blue writing

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

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astronomy fog fantasy

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

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grew courses grew-up

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

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chance struggle character

Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.

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pjs yarn clothes

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

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calculus university physics

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

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real people world