I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They keep saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all. And yet they just carry on like before.

I’m on the autism spectrum. I don’t usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

When I’m up there, and I know the show’s coming to a close, in my head I’m saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That’s what I don’t like so much.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

I have Asperger’s, I’m on the autism spectrum, so I don’t really care about social codes. It makes you think differently.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. For some people, anyway.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.