“While autism is a developmental disorder, sometimes a devastating one, there is always within the autism a unique and sometimes strangely gifted individual. The great psychoanalyst Winicott used to feel that there was something like a tulip in every person and this was their essence and that this in…”— Oliver Sacks, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Autism, Disorder, Development, devastating, Individual
“My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity—of the wonder of innumerable forms of life—has always thrilled me beyond anything…”— Oliver Sacks, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Love, Biology, Adolescence, Natural History Museum, Botanical