Hari Srinivasan

Engaging in these behaviors brings about a mixture of emotions. On one level, they are strangely comforting. At the same time, these behaviors are highly annoying, irritating and exhausting.

Most folks take the access ramp to volunteering for granted because volunteering is easily available to them. But being differently-abled puts a whole new light on this access.

The lesson I took away from Hawking was that a life of meaning is one where you are productive and contribute to society in whatever small way you can.

There is really no other way of handling transitions than systematic desensitization — repeatedly walking through the doorway and thinking through the steps before going in to reduce that unknown factor.

All these women chose to believe in the possibility of individuals like me. All these women helped me build confidence and contribute to making the individual I am today.

The skin is the largest sensory organ in the body, so there is sensory input coming in literally from head to toe. It is both agony and ecstasy.

There is now a newer subset of autistic students who are college-bound — the nonspeaking and the sensorily disorganized autistics like me.

Have to move — something to do with pearls.

The mind of an autistic person can truly be a marvel, since we interact with our environment in rather unique ways, which lends unique perspectives.