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Top 10 Cynthia Kim Quotes (2025 Update)

Cynthia Kim Quote: “Typical people acquire social skills primarily by absorption; autistic people need to be taught social skills explicitly. When.”

1. “Typical people acquire social skills primarily by absorption; autistic people need to be taught social skills explicitly. When.”

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Cynthia Kim Quote: “Anger makes me uncomfortable. I avoid it. I suppress it. Most often my reaction to any form of anger is that I want it to stop. Perhaps because I didn’t learn how to express anger constructively as a child, only that it was undesirable. My literal Aspie brain didn’t perceive the difference between “expressing anger in destructive ways is bad” and “expressing anger is bad.”

2. “Anger makes me uncomfortable. I avoid it. I suppress it. Most often my reaction to any form of anger is that I want it to stop. Perhaps because I didn’t learn how to express anger constructively as a child, only that it was undesirable. My literal Aspie brain didn’t perceive the difference between “expressing anger in destructive ways is bad” and “expressing anger is bad.”

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Cynthia Kim Quote: “You must be very high functioning. You don’t seem autistic.” “Why, thank you. And you’re not especially ugly.”

3. “You must be very high functioning. You don’t seem autistic.” “Why, thank you. And you’re not especially ugly.”

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Cynthia Kim Quote: “Yet, when I’m alone, I rarely feel lonely. If I were writing the thesaurus entries for alone, the synonyms would include: authentic, free, individual, indulgent, open, peaceful, protected, pure, quiet, rejuvenating, solitary. Thanks to the amount of time I spend alone, I’m on intimate terms with myself. I have a running internal dialogue that informs my life, my writing, my relationships. I observe and absorb the world around me. I’m good at being alone.”

4. “Yet, when I’m alone, I rarely feel lonely. If I were writing the thesaurus entries for alone, the synonyms would include: authentic, free, individual, indulgent, open, peaceful, protected, pure, quiet, rejuvenating, solitary. Thanks to the amount of time I spend alone, I’m on intimate terms with myself. I have a running internal dialogue that informs my life, my writing, my relationships. I observe and absorb the world around me. I’m good at being alone.”

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Cynthia Kim Quote: “Just as functioning isn’t uniform, it isn’t linear either. There is a commonly seen phenomenon in autistic children where they’ll make big gains in elementary school then regress when they hit adolescence. Or a child will be labeled a late bloomer, seeming practically “normal” in their teen years, then seem to backslide dramatically when they go off to college or enter the adult world of work and independent living.”

5. “Just as functioning isn’t uniform, it isn’t linear either. There is a commonly seen phenomenon in autistic children where they’ll make big gains in elementary school then regress when they hit adolescence. Or a child will be labeled a late bloomer, seeming practically “normal” in their teen years, then seem to backslide dramatically when they go off to college or enter the adult world of work and independent living.”

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Cynthia Kim Quote: “I was, however, a handful. I was overly smart, easily bored, very curious and constantly in motion. Consequently, I got a lot of guidance from adults on how to behave properly. This reined in my more problematic behaviors, but it also made me feel like I was forever in danger of doing something “wrong,” especially when I “wasn’t trying hard enough.”

6. “I was, however, a handful. I was overly smart, easily bored, very curious and constantly in motion. Consequently, I got a lot of guidance from adults on how to behave properly. This reined in my more problematic behaviors, but it also made me feel like I was forever in danger of doing something “wrong,” especially when I “wasn’t trying hard enough.”

— Cynthia Kim

Cynthia Kim Quote: “Many autistic people have dampened or muted interception. We don’t seem to notice what’s going on in our bodies until it reaches a level that other people would find intolerable.”

7. “Many autistic people have dampened or muted interception. We don’t seem to notice what’s going on in our bodies until it reaches a level that other people would find intolerable.”

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Cynthia Kim Quote: “Bizarrely, my biggest fear was that the tests would prove I didn’t have Asperger’s or that the psychologist would think I wasn’t autistic enough to merit a diagnosis. Then I’d be back to having no explanation for all the atypical things about me.”

8. “Bizarrely, my biggest fear was that the tests would prove I didn’t have Asperger’s or that the psychologist would think I wasn’t autistic enough to merit a diagnosis. Then I’d be back to having no explanation for all the atypical things about me.”

— Cynthia Kim

Cynthia Kim Quote: “Sadness feels like the emotion that is most strongly connected to humanity – the one that binds us to each other in some important and primitive way. I.”

9. “Sadness feels like the emotion that is most strongly connected to humanity – the one that binds us to each other in some important and primitive way. I.”

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Cynthia Kim Quote: “When you’re in the middle of it, nothing is as clearly defined as hindsight makes it appear.”

10. “When you’re in the middle of it, nothing is as clearly defined as hindsight makes it appear.”

— Cynthia Kim

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