Devon Price Quotes

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Devon Price is an American social psychologist, blogger, and author focusing on autism. He is best known for his books, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity and Laziness Does Not Exist, as well as for publishing shorter pieces on Medium and Psychology Today.

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When a marginalized person holds themselves personally responsible for solving the problem of their own oppression, Systemic Shame is the overwhelmed, hopeless feeling that results.

Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power (2024)

When a masked Autistic person lacks self-knowledge or any kind of broad social acceptance, they are often forced to conceive of themselves as compartmentalized, inconsistent parts.

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity (2022)

The Laziness Lie has three main tenets. They are: 1. Your worth is your productivity. 2. You cannot trust your own feelings and limits. 3. There is always more you could be doing.

Laziness Does Not Exist (2021)

True solidarity building requires that we acknowledge people's struggles as legitimate-even while upholding that some people's struggles intersect in far more ways, and some who suffer hold the power to make others' suffering worse.

Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power (2024)

Masking is a state of exclusion forced onto us from the outside...We only get the opportunity to take our masks off when we realize other ways of being exist.

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity (2022)

You might get to thinking that the challenges you're facing are not as legitimate as other people's. But it's this very feeling of isolated helplessness that actually binds you to the majority of humans living on this planet.

Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power (2024)

People imnitate Autistic hand flapping when they want to imply a disabled person is stupid, annoying, or out of control. Donald Trump famously did a cruel imitation of hand flapping during his 2016 campaign, while criticizing a physically disabled reporter.

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity (2022)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Devon Price (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.