Autistic Scientist Quotes

“Divergent Dynamite
(The Sonnet)

You only know my infinite radiance,
you got no clue to my innate hurricane.
Day in and day out I struggle autistic,
Genius is outcome of a mind broken.

There are cracks across my heart,
nothing can bar the pouring rays.
Light is but suffering harnessed,
Genius is brokenness harnessed.

There is no end to my exuberance,
limits of typicals don't apply to me.
I am but an enigma of unbending tenacity,
every breath is testament to impossibility.

Divergence is nature's way to expansion.
Divergent dynamite I, am living evolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Naskar and Abi (The Sonnet)

Ask me about the strangest secrets of human behavior,
I would ramble on and on without stopping for hours.
But try to make small talk with me as a cold stranger,
And I would struggle to put a single thought in words.
Only force that breaks my autistic barrier is attachment,
I only remember of one person with whom I could be me.
When she left I let the God complex blow at full throttle,
So that Naskar survives even if nobody gets to see Abi.
Perhaps that is why without even knowing I invented Abi,
So that the real Abi finds expression, at least in fiction.
Thus, if and when the strain gets too heavy I could escape,
The vastness of Naskar, without escaping the conviction.
There is no rock of ages without some everyday weakness.
It is the weakness that keeps us grounded as sapiens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Despite the noises,
Despite the compulsions,
Despite the lack of silver spoon,
Despite all third world obstructions -
If a dropout vagabond could do so much,
What holds you back from expansion!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“You know why I write books? Because it is the one thing about the outcome of which I don't give a damn. I don't care if they gather dust, I don't care if they don't sell. In fact, among my hundred plus works, there are a few that have sold barely ten copies. Yet, am I bothered! Nope!

I don't write to sell books, I write because my mind teeters on the edge of psychosis if I spend a single day without writing. Sure, the ultimate mission behind my legacy is the construction of a humane world, but if you get down to the actual morale of the moment - the only recompense I get out of it all, is the felicity of putting my fervor on paper - thus immortalizing them for eons to come. That's how this one life could produce such an impossibly inexhaustible amount of literature in the first place - because I dream my ideas, breathe my ideas, and live my ideas. Better a lesser read genius, than a misread genius. Or to put it plainer still - I am not a writer, I am an anomaly - for better or for worse, I am an anomaly.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Genius is outcome of a mind broken.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“There are cracks across my heart,
nothing can bar the pouring rays.
Light is but suffering harnessed,
Genius is brokenness harnessed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Sonnet on The Spectrum
(Diary of An Autistic Neuroscientist)

We, on the spectrum, are often
misconstrued as rude or audacious.
Problem is not that we feel too little,
but that we feel too crippling much.

Sensory overload is our biggest struggle,
an eternal battle against daily situations.
Storms that the normals experience only in
tragedy, are our life's everyday occurrence.

Sidelining the stormy torment of the spectrum,
the world romanticizes with autistic savants.
I never could communicate with my parents,
and they never knew what my struggle was.

We autistics have difficulty communicating,
till we speak on a matter of interest.
Then we can jabber like any neurotypical,
bursting with joy in our nerves and veins.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Autism is not a disease to be cured, autism is normal, a different kind of normal, but normal no less, and with a modest amount of care the acclimation feels less challenging.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace