Autism Quotes

#1. Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular. #Quote by Claire Danes

#2. I'm autistic and most of my children are autistic as well. Please don't tell me how sorry you are for me. I don't need pity. I'm just a mother who has children. Our unique identities and neurology make us who we are. We are perfectly fine just like this, thanks #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#3. Sometimes i feel upset but don't have the word to explain what really is wrong. Because most of the time I'm not sure what is actually wrong. I have trouble recognizing my emotions and feelings. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#4. people confuse me, with what they say and do. They rarely say what they mean,then they get mad at me for believing what they have said. Telling me that they didn't mean it that way or that they were joking. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#5. Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk? #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#6. The trouble", said Gene, "is that the things that Rosie loves you for are exactly the things that make her think you're too... different, to be a father. She may be a risk taker with relationships, but no woman's a risk taker with her kids. In the end, it will come down to persuading her you're... average enough to be a father. #Quote by Graeme Simsion

#7. There are no files in my memory that are repressed,' she asserted. 'You have files that are blocked. I have none so painful that they're blocked. There are no secrets, no locked doors - nothing is hidden. I can infer that there are hidden areas in other people, so that they can't bear to talk of certain things. The amygdala locks the files of the hippocampus. In me, the amygdala doesn't generate enough emotion to lock the files of the hippocampus. #Quote by Oliver Sacks

#8. I wonder if the World would feel differently about me if they could see how life feels viewing it like I do, through my eyes. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#9. If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism. #Quote by Jenny McCarthy

#10. I can't speak anymore, I open my mouth but nothing comes out. So many things to say. I wonder if you really want to hear it anyway?

Instead, I leave my heavy mind exploding with unfinished thoughts. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#11. The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers. #Quote by Elizabeth Emken

#12. Don't think that there's a different, better child 'hiding' behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child. You may have to work harder on some of this, but that's the goal. #Quote by Claire Scovell LaZebnik

#13. Echophenomena, such as autistic echoing of phrases, are largely considered involuntary, even if such echoing is done voluntarily. (Such are the paradoxes of compliance.) Conversely, imitation, such as complying with a behavioral analyst's demand to mirror her jumping body, is regarded as voluntary, even if it is coerced or scripted. #Quote by Melanie Yergeau

#14. Sensory overload - I just want to soak myself completely to rid myself of
feeling too much #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#15. I feel everything intensely, but sometimes I can't feel anything, I'm either hyper aware or numb. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#16. But had Minkowski and Einstein not recognized it long before us, our schizophrenic children would have taught us that space-time is a unity that precedes any separate understanding of either category; just as grasping this unity is a precondition for understanding causality. #Quote by Bruno Bettelheim

#17. There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself. #Quote by Jodi Picoult

#18. Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment. #Quote by Jenny McCarthy

#19. I hope that this book will be my way of helping to clear the fog of mystery surrounding autism. And in passing on my personal story I hope to include with it the best and most valuable of what I have learned along the way both as a mother and in my two decades working as a paediatrician. I also hope it will encourage healthcare professionals to be advocates for families who patiently and willingly endure battles every day for the sake of their children. My book describes a wide range of resources and therapies that can help families of children with special needs and autism #Quote by May Ng

#20. In dealing with autism, I'm certainly not saying we should lose sight of the need to work on deficits, But the focus on deficits is so intense and so automatic that people lose sight of the strengths. #Quote by Temple Grandin

#21. Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die. #Quote by Jodi Picoult

#22. People often said to me what I couldn't do things when I was younger such as sports, writing, mathematics, geography, science etc - I pathway can always be tailored can change and that change itself is possible what did I excel in well art was one of those things of have gone BACK to to move FORWARD and have taken up poetry and creativity something that occupies my mind in way that creates happy thoughts, happy feelings, and happiness all round really.

To invest in your strengths and understand but not over-define yourself by your deficits is something that has worked for me over the years and this year in particular (the ethos was always there instilled that I am human being first like anyone else by my parents and family but it has been tenderly and quite rightly reaffirmed by a friend also) it has made me a more balanced person whom has healthy acknowledgment of my autism who but also wants to be known as a person first - see me first, see that I have a personality first.

I say this not in anger or bitterness but as a healthy optimistic realisation and as a message of hope for people out there. #Quote by Paul Isaacs

#23. The trauma of Down's syndrome is that it is present prenatally and can therefore undermine the early stages of bonding. The challenge of autism is that it sets in or is detected in the toddler years, and so transfigures the child to whom parents have already bonded. The shock of schizophrenia is that it manifests in late adolescence or early adulthood, and parents must accept that the child they have known and loved for more than a decade may be irrevocably lost, even as that child looks much the same as ever. #Quote by Andrew Solomon

#24. A lady emailed me that her child had been diagnosed with autism and that hearing my material on the subject had helped her. To me, it just means that I'm making the right decision in talking about this. #Quote by Ron Funches

#25. The Tragedy isn't Autism - The Tragedy is the lack of understanding of Autism, Lack of resources, Interventions not being met with the person in mind and Assumptions being made about the person. #Quote by Paul Isaacs

#26. Autistic adults were once autistic kids. We grow up and need acceptance and understanding as well. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#27. I felt the bark of the trees on either side of me as I walked. It was very soothing. Here in the LBA Woods, the trees grew very close together and when I did not walk on the path, I would reach out with my fingertips and touch their bark as I passed. The skin of the trees was warm in the sunlight, and rough, and I imagined that each tree contained a soul. Like an Ent. I knew this idea was not a true thing, but still I felt good that the trees were here. #Quote by Ned Hayes

#28. Even the word "disorder" is a trigger word for some, myself included. Today, I prefer to write and say, "I am autistic," or "I am Aspie," when referring to myself, versus "a person with autism/Aspergers." Primarily because I don't have Aspergers - rather, I am Aspie. #Quote by Samantha Craft

#29. I don't know
what I'm feeling. Existing like I'm on auto pilot.
I've put my Armour on now. Limiting everything getting
in but also not letting anything out. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#30. Being young is hard. I was so isolated and alienated when I was young. All I wanted was a friend. I want the world to be different for young Auties than it was for me. #Quote by Jeanette Purkis

#31. All my life I've felt different to most. This has caused me anxiety and depression over the years. It took being diagnosed at age 36 to make my life finally make sense. I fit in somewhere now. I feel like I'm not a wrong neurotypical. I'm a complete autistic #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#32. If you are accepting of the belief that life can be good even with autism, then they will think so, too. You are the most important person in your child's life, and you can make them believe that anything is possible. #Quote by Chantal Sicile-Kira

#33. I'm an autistic girl. I have many years to grow. I'm going to rock my life. Just watch me shine #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#34. So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it. We certainly have to try to figure out what causes it and why and do something about it. But to tab it to vaccines, I think, is a real mistake. Not only is there no evidence, but what it leads to is larger numbers of unvaccinated children. And that's not only a problem for polio. It's a problem for a wide range of vaccine-preventable diseases. #Quote by David Oshinsky

#35. And I think for a moment, because people don't actually ask that very often. They tell me what they think I feel because they've read it in books, or they say incredible things like "autistic people have no sense of humour or imagination or empathy" when I'm standing right there beside them (and one day I'm going to point out that that is more than a little bit rude, not to mention Not Even True) or they -- even worse -- talk to me like I'm about five, and can't understand.
"It's like living with all your senses turned up to full volume all the time," I say. "And it's like living life in a different language, so you can't ever quite relax because even when you think you're fluent it's still using a different part of your brain so by the end of the day you're exhausted. #Quote by Rachael Lucas

#36. The reactions of the many should not affect the actions of the few. #Quote by Joey Lawsin

#37. Is autism a disease?

If a woman asked me right now, "but wouldn't you rather be cured?" I'd reply, "would you like to be cured of being a woman?"

Autism, like womanhood, is painful, and difficult, and not made easy by the structure of our society. But it is who we are.

There are treatments that can make certain aspects easier, yes. But there is no whole cure because there is no whole disease.

Some women take birth control to reduce the effects of PMS or PMDD, to stop their bodies from being so at odds with the world, to make living just a little more easy, a little more comfortable. But it is not for every woman, it does not change the fact that they are a woman, and it does not change the sexism that they face every day, all the problems that result from the fact of society being built to serve people who are not them.

I'd like treatments for autistic people to be seen in the same light. Medicine's priority should be to improve quality of life, not to make a person more palatable to society.

Society must be forced to deal with these people because these people will not be easily consigned to oblivion. #Quote by Irene Wendy Wode

#38. Today, with tears in my eyes, I telephoned the mother of one of our children (aged thirteen) who had spoken for the first time since the age of three... #Quote by Michael Braccia

#39. The wind is blowing hard around me, the sound is rising in my chest again, and I feel I can fly.And then the branch has shifted under my feet, the deep furrows of the bark have left my back, and I have no time to spread my arms. I am not flying. I am falling. #Quote by Ned Hayes

#40. This tree was a vast cylinder of wood. It filled the sky. The limbs reached out above me, a great canopy sheltering the rest of the trees, as if they were its children. #Quote by Ned Hayes

#41. The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend. #Quote by Andrew Solomon

#42. Dr. Sacks treats each of his subjects - the amnesic fifty-year-old man who believes himself to be a young sailor in the Navy, the "disembodied" woman whose limbs have become alien to her, and of course the famous man who mistook his wife for a hat - with a deep respect for the unique individual living beneath the disorder. These tales inspire awe and empathy, allowing the reader to enter the uncanny worlds of those with autism, Alzheimer's, Tourette's syndrome, and other unfathomable neurological conditions. "One of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times), Dr. Sacks brings to vivid life some of the most fundamental questions about identity and the human mind. #Quote by Oliver Sacks

#43. If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child. #Quote by Stuart Duncan

#44. There are skeletons in this earth. #Quote by Corinne Duyvis

#45. Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life. #Quote by Daniel Tammet

#46. It's not just the child that has autism. It's the whole family that has autism. It's not a one person thing, #Quote by Ted Lindsay

#47. You're not defective, Ewan,' she continued. 'You're not broken. You're not the wrong kind of person. And don't let anyone in this world tell you otherwise. You and your friends are exactly who they're meant to be. #Quote by Chris Bonnello

#48. There has never been a verified scientific report that chelation therapy, a gluten-free diet, or anything else can cure autism. #Quote by Michael Specter

#49. Try to understand how they feel - put yourselves in their place. Imagine you are in a foreign country with no money, possessions or friends. You cannot speak the language; the culture is completely different to your normal environment; isolated and helpless. You would be dependent on someone supporting you. Think of that when you next meet someone who is autistic... #Quote by Michael Braccia

#50. Sometimes. In busy places. I may need to escape. I'm not being rude. I'm helping myself. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#51. Part of the torture of autism is that the future is so impossibly unsure. Your child might become a fully functioning member of society and appear no different than anyone else, even if he does have to look at mouths instead of eyes and can't stand to give his own kids a bath. Or, he might be so violent that he requires institutionalization... Either way, you're expected to work your ass off for it. #Quote by Jennifer Lee Noonan

#52. Being autistic does not mean I don't have empathy. Stereotypes are harmful. If anything I hyper feel everything and have to try to shut off to cope. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#53. I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover. #Quote by Jenny McCarthy

#54. [Patricia Highsmith] was an extremely unbalanced person, extremely hostile and misanthropic and totally incapable of any kind of relationship, not just intimate ones. I felt sorry for her, because it wasn't her fault. There was something in her early days or whatever that made her incapable. She drove everybody away and people who really wanted to be friends ended up putting the phone down on her.
It seemed to me as if she had to ape feelings and behaviour, like Ripley. Of course sometimes having no sense of social behaviour can be charming, but in her case it was alarming. I remember once, when she was trying to have a dinner party with people she barely knew, she deliberately leaned towards the candle on the table and set fire to her hair. People didn't know what to do as it was a very hostile act and the smell of singeing and burning filled the room. #Quote by Andrew Wilson

#55. Shit, if I can teach you precalc, I can teach anybody. like maybe kids with autism. #Quote by John Green

#56. The ultimate goal of parents, educators, and professionals who interact with children with autism is to unlock their potential to become self-reliant, fully-integrated, contributing members of society. We have the power to unlock this potential by implementing an effectively structured intervention - that which takes the development of the whole child into account. #Quote by Karina Poirier

#57. Sometimes,
lots of times,
when people talk
I don't hear the words.
Just the sounds,
strung together.
Up, down,
side, side,
hum, buzz. #Quote by Melody J. Bremen

#58. Any given therapy method might well work to some degree for some people with autism, but no approach will work across the board for every person with the condition. #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#59. Children with ASD can grow beyond their limitations and develop into wonderful, productive citizens. All we have to do is see through those limitations to the bright kids they really are, helping them past their difficulties without allowing
them to be labeled and restricted by their diagnoses. #Quote by Karina Poirier

#60. He had the whitest teeth I'd ever seen, which made me think his kisses would taste like Pep O Mint Life Savers. Joe's kisses probably tasted like pot and Funyuns. And failure. #Quote by Tracey Garvis Graves

#61. All autism is real it's a spectrum. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#62. The World can feel like a strange and confusing place for an autistic person. Lights, sounds and smells are extremely intense and overwhelming sometimes. People also can be confusing and overwhelming to me. It can help me if you are consistent with what you say and do; please say what you mean. Also provide me with a safe, quiet place to recover when I'm really overwhelmed. Please speak quietly and calmly and give me time to de-stress. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#63. Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path. #Quote by Ban Ki-moon

#64. I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me. #Quote by Elizabeth Moon

#65. She may do things differently to you, but who says you are doing things right? #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#66. I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God. #Quote by Fred Melamed

#67. Let me see if I can put this in scientific terms: Think of autism like a fart, and vaccines are the finger you pull to make it happen. #Quote by Jenny McCarthy

#68. She became an illusion of herself. It was easier to cope with people that way #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#69. There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it. #Quote by Solange Nicole

#70. My colors ran all over the page, poured out of the lines and meshed together to form colors no one had yet recognized. I was different–unique, bold, strong, smart, and hard-headed. I was simply me. #Quote by Jeannie Davide-Rivera

#71. I never know what people are thinking. It's like visiting a country where you don't speak the language and you're trying so hard to understand but no matter how many times you ask for juice, they keep bringing you milk. #Quote by Tracey Garvis Graves

#72. Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body's now a speck, a speck from long before I was born, a speck that is melting into nature herself. #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#73. Being autistic doesn't make me any less human. It just makes me who I am. Just like you are. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#74. Over the years, numerous times, too many times to count, just as I was about to reach my breaking point, just when I thought I couldn't take another minute, another second, out of nowhere-at the grocery store, at the park, at restaurants-angel, Ethan's angels, would appear and safe us: strangers in stores would stop to talk to Ethan; neighbors took him for a walk... #Quote by Jim Kokoris

#75. I'd spent the preceding twenty days swirling in a paralyzing vortex of loud sounds and bad smells, overwhelming stimuli, and confusing social norms, and I'd had just about all I could take. #Quote by Tracey Garvis Graves

#76. I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that, my mother said. Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them grow. Growing and living are hard enough already; children do not need things to be harder. I think this is true even for normal children. I have watched little children learning to walk; they all struggle and fall down many times. Their faces show that it is not easy. It would be stupid to tie bricks on them to make it harder. If that is true for learning to walk, then I think it is true for other growing and learning as well.
God is suppose to be the good parent, the Father. So I think God would not make things harder than they are. I do not think I am autistic because God thought my parents needed a challenge or I needed a challenge. I think it is like if I were a baby and a rock fell on me and broke my leg. Whatever caused it was an accident. God did not prevent the accident, but He did not cause it, either.... I think my autism is an accident, but what I do with it is me. #Quote by Elizabeth Moon

#77. I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why the planets spin. #Quote by Jerry Newport

#78. It's time to cure society, not autistic people. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#79. One of the most promising developments since the publication of "The Geek Syndrome" has been the emergence of the concept of neurodiversity: the notion that conditions like autism, dyslexia, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should be regarded as naturally occurring cognitive variations with distinctive strengths that have contributed to the evolution of technology and culture rather than mere checklists of deficits and dysfunctions. #Quote by Steve Silberman

#80. People who stare. I ask for a little empathy. Please don't judge. Be understanding that some places will strongly affect me. My senses are heightened and i experience lights, noise and smells differently that you might. Stimming will help me regulate myself to my environment as well as calming me. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#81. He's wearing a T-shirt for the first time, answering thatquestion I had when we met. It's not muscle filling out Max's clothes; he's just chubby. It looks good on him either way. The thought feels bizarrely out of place after everything that happened today.
I've rehearsed what to tell him. Last year, a friend of my aunt's died, and Iris and Dad coached me on what to say. I copy it almost word for word. "Max, I didn't know your sister well. But she was nice to me. I'm very sorry for your loss." I hold his gaze for a second. #Quote by Corinne Duyvis

#82. We have pills for headaches. We have antidepressants for sadness. We had God for believers. We have nothing for autism. #Quote by Lisa Genova

#83. I was diagnosed with autism at the age of five. I wasn't diagnosed as a comedian until much later. #Quote by Michael McCreary

#84. Up to two hundred genes can be implicated in autism, and some evidence suggests that you need several to manifest the syndrome. Sometimes, epistatic, or modifier, genes influence the expression of primary genes; sometimes environmental factors influence the expression of these genes. The closer the relationship between genotype and phenotype, the easier it is to discern. In autism, some people with a share genotype don't share a phenotype, and some with a shared phenotype don't share a genotype. #Quote by Andrew Solomon

#85. I am an actress of life, the world is my stage. Trained to fit in and yet I still fail. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#86. When we're young we may be called "little professors," but when we get a bit older, we're more like "absent-minded professors. #Quote by Rudy Simone

#87. Think of it: a disability is usually defined in terms of what is missing. ... But autism ... is as much about what is abundant as what is missing, an over-expression of the very traits that make our species unique. #Quote by Paul Collins

#88. I would like people to stop pressuring children to make friends. Friendships can't be artificially created. #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#89. This crusade to fix herself was ending right now. She wasn't broken. She saw and interacted with the world in a different way, but that was her. She could change her actions, change her words, change her appearance, but she couldn't change the root of herself. At her core, she would always be autistic. People called it a disorder, but it didn't feel like one. To her, it was simply the way she was. #Quote by Helen Hoang

#90. You have a healthy baby boy! The words ring like church bells in the ears of new parents. #Quote by Dr. Linda Barboa

#91. Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism. #Quote by Jon Krakauer

#92. Part of the autistic experience is not being believed. #Quote by Melanie Yergeau

#93. Reflecting on my Autism - The processing and communication issues that I have I look at it like this I have had set cards dealt to me and I'm going play them to the best of my abilities. #Quote by Paul Isaacs

#94. I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations. #Quote by Gary Numan

#95. We just process things differently. It's not wrong - just different. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#96. As a functional Aspergian adult, one thing troubles me deeply about those kids who end up behind the second door. Many descriptions of autism and Asperger's describe people like me as "not wanting contact with others" or "preferring to play alone." I can't speak for other kids, but I'd like to be very clear about my own feelings: I did not ever want to be alone. And all those child psychologists who said "John prefers to play by himself" were dead wrong. I played by myself because I was a failure at playing with others. I was alone as a result of my own limitations, and being alone was one of the bitterest disappointments of my young life. #Quote by John Elder Robison

#97. But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself. #Quote by Melanie Bennett

#98. I love knowing other people like me. It makes me feel like I am okay just how I am #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#99. I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my child's case, is what resulted in autism. #Quote by Holly Robinson Peete

#100. I'm not damaged, I don't need fixing. I'm just different. Embrace different #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#101. Will interrupts him. "What do you know about people on the autism spectrum?" Owen #Quote by Leta Blake

#102. A man never steps in the same stream twice. The man is never the same man and the stream is never the same stream #Quote by Hericletus

#103. there was a time I was dark, sad and a recluse
I did not understand why I felt like I did.Then my life changed.
I was diagnosed and suddenly my world made sense. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#104. There should be no single representation in the autism world. Think about this if someone got up on stage and talked about having "non-autistic syndrome" and made the assumption every one with this syndrome is the same we would be in big trouble. That applies to autism as well - it isn't one condition, there are profile differences between Autism and AS and all autism "fruits salads" are different. That is how diverse autism is. #Quote by Paul Isaacs

#105. The more frantic and desperate I become, the more I punch myself: by now, it's no longer about punishing my brain, it's about punishing myself for having lost the plot so woefully. If, however, people don't flip out at the sight of me and understand next time you see someone like me in mid-meltdown, I'd ask you to conduct yourself with this knowledge. #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#106. God created autism to offset the excessive number of boring people on Earth. #Quote by Lilli Gilliam

#107. The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music. #Quote by Doug Flutie

#108. Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism. #Quote by Temple Grandin

#109. Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism. #Quote by Temple Grandin

#110. The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism. #Quote by Helen Mirren

#111. So how do people with autism see the world, exactly? We, only we, can ever know the answer to that one! Sometimes I actually pity you for not being able to see the beauty of the world in the same way we do. Really, our vision of the world can be incredible, just incredible ...
When you see an object, it seems that you see it as an entire thing first, and only afterwards do its details follow on ... But for people with autism, the details jump straight out at us first of all, and then only gradually, detail by detail, does the whole image sort of float up into focus.
Every single thing has its own unique beauty. People with autism get to cherish this beauty, as if it's a kind of blessing given to us. #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#112. Can you accept me, can you love me? Without conditions ? Can you nurture me, can you respect me? Without conditions ? Will you embrace me as my own unique autistic self? #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#113. We don't talk on the ride home. We don't have to. I feel warm and giddy and like I have a secret that I want to keep all to myself. David Drucker, who is so many different people all at once: the guy who always sits alone, the guy who talked quantum physics even in my dad's dental chair, the guy who held my hand in the snow. I kissed David Drucker, the guy I most like to talk to, and it was perfect. #Quote by Julie Buxbaum

#114. Sometimes I don't have enough energy to be social. I need time alone to recover from the last time I went out. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#115. Autistic people are individuals. We are not all maths geniuses, we don't all like trains. I am hopeless with technology and much prefer painting. There is no 'typical Autistic.' But I think we probably all like being respected and validated #Quote by Jeanette Purkis

#116. Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output. #Quote by Stuart Duncan

#117. Despite the constant lament that autism is just too costly, a significant or even 'crippling' economic burden for the social whole, the production of the time-rich but not time-efficient body of the autistic child has generated a multibillion dollar 'autism industrial complex. #Quote by Anne McGuire

#118. People with autism react physically to feelings of happiness and sadness. So when something happens that affects me emotionally, my body seizes up as if struck by lightning. #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#119. Would I ever have the courage to tell Wills the truth? That he wasn't just imagining the world was a more difficult place for him to understand than for some of his buddies - that it was, in fact, more difficult for him. That he'd been dealt a rotten hand in that regard, but only in that one regard. Because I wouldn't change one freckle, one misunderstood moment, one tiny piece of him for anything in the world. I would change myself. I would change the things other people said or thought out of ignorance or fear. I would change so many things, but I would absolutely never, in a million years, change him. #Quote by Monica Holloway

#120. Do not fear people with Autism, embrace them, Do not spite people with Autism unite them, Do not deny people with Autism accept them for then their abilities will shine #Quote by Paul Isaacs

#121. Autism is part of who I am. #Quote by Temple Grandin

#122. I'm not a hero for living autistic. I'm a person just like you. Just living my life. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#123. All my life, I have been working with children whose lives were destroyed because their mothers hated them.
1981 re: cause of autism #Quote by Bruno Bettelheim

#124. Obsessions are the only things that matter. #Quote by Patricia Highsmith

#125. In a world now so obsessed with speed, we teachers must step back and learn to wait. #Quote by Adele Devine

#126. Know your own child's behaviors and look deeper to find their meaning. Be the expert for your child. Discover the wonderful. #Quote by Liz Becker

#127. There is a lot of fuss about whether or not Asperger's is on the autism spectrum, but to be honest, it doesn't matter. It's a term we use to get Jacob the accommodations he needs in school, not a label to explain who he is #Quote by Jodi Picoult

#128. Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us. #Quote by Warren Ellis

#129. In 1997, cognitive psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen found that the fathers and grandfathers of children with autism were more likely to be engineers. #Quote by Steve Silberman

#130. My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time. #Quote by Keith Stanfield

#131. ...and even now I still can't "do" a real conversation. I have no problem reading books aloud and singing, but as soon as I try to speak with someone, my words just vanish. #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#132. I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal - so we can't know for sure what your "normal" is even like. #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#133. William Stillman continues his fascinating exploration of the myriad connections between autism and human personality. The Soul of Autism makes a strong case for why we should embrace rather than fear the differences between us. #Quote by Dean Hamer

#134. Some days just being awake is too much input. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#135. Having two children with autism, it makes you really think about how we do relate to each other. #Quote by Jocelyn Moorhouse

#136. Get up, stand up and look up into your future as an independent human being. Every one has the right to an independent life, especially us Aspies. #Quote by Jeanette Purkis

#137. But reading her journals has helped her to remember more than that morning. There was more to Anthony's life than his death. And there was more to Anthony than his autism. So much more. She can think about Anthony now and not be consumed by autism or grief. #Quote by Lisa Genova

#138. I take criticism to heart. The words hit me literally and it hurts. It can take me a long time to recover from it. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#139. But the Beast was a good person ... the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet. #Quote by Karen Kingsbury

#140. You look beautiful even when you cry. I mean, not that you don't look beautiful when you're happy. Of course, you're beautiful all the time. But out there in the snow, you were stunning. #Quote by Julie Buxbaum

#141. I don't play NT games, If you want me to know something tell me, simple! #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#142. She ached so badly to be held it felt like a sickness had invaded her muscles and bones. As usual, her own arms provided little comfort. #Quote by Helen Hoang

#143. It's hard to forget hurtful things, isn't it? Children with autism have good memories. So it's much harder for them to forget bad experiences than it is for us. So fill them with as many good experiences as possible. #Quote by Keiko Tobe

#144. One of the places where research is needed is all the sensory problems. And you get sensory problems not just with autism, but with dyslexia, learning problems, ADHD, attention deficit, you know, things like sound sensitivity, problems with fluorescent lighting. #Quote by Temple Grandin

#145. Traveling with people who have special needs might present difficulties, but please, let it happen. We all need a break and a change of scene sometimes. This is as true for us as it is for you. #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#146. People are also dying from vaccinations. Evan, my son, died in front of me for two minutes. You ask any mother in the autism community if we'll take the flu, the measles, over autism and day of the week. I think they need to wake up and stop hurting our kids. #Quote by Jenny McCarthy

#147. True autism, Jack had decided, was in the last analysis an apathy toward public endeavor; it was a private existence carried on as if the individual person were the creator of all value, rather than merely the repository of inherited values. And Jack Bohlen, for the life of him, could not accept the Public School with its teaching machines as the sole arbiter of what was and what wasn't of value. For the values of a society were in ceaseless flux, and the Public School was an attempt to stabilize those values, to jell them at a fixed point-to embalm them. #Quote by Philip K. Dick

#148. Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley. #Quote by Temple Grandin

#149. Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care. #Quote by Jenny McCarthy

#150. Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful! #Quote by Stuart Duncan

#151. As far as I'm concerned, there's no need whatsoever to "practice being bullied." Acquiring superpowers of endurance is not something children need to be learning before they enter society at large. It is only the person being bullied who understands the true cost of what they suffer. People with no experience of being bullied have no idea how miserable it is to grow up being picked on the whole time. #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#152. But enough of phenomenology; it is nothing more than the solitary, endless monologue of consciousness, a hard-core autism that no real cat would ever importune. #Quote by Muriel Barbery

#153. You are the CEO of your own life. It;s you making the decisions #Quote by Jeanette Purkis

#154. My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet. #Quote by Nikki Reed

#155. I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me. #Quote by Temple Grandin

#156. There are many things we don't understand, and many ways to unlock the brain and maximize function. Don't ever let anybody tell you it can't be done. #Quote by Sally Fryer Dietz

#157. I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism? #Quote by Jenny McCarthy

#158. So is there a cure?' I asked.
'It's not a disease,' he explained. 'It doesn't need curing. It's just how you are #Quote by John Elder Robison

#159. For people with autism, living itself is a battle. #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#160. I think in the ever growing diversity of the distinct and person-centred presentations of autism it is important to know and acknowledge the crucial differences between Autism & Asperger's Syndrome. Both are which are forms of autism but have different "mechanics" that drive them.

I have Autism (as opposed to Asperger's Syndrome) I live in a world before the literal, words tumble in my mind into sounds

I love tone, melody and beats they brings my world alive. I live in world world where visuals hold no significance fragmented and not in my "mind's eye" and need to be touched in order to be "seen".

I like elevated gesture and tone when people speak dead words wander alive into my mind and give them meaning and circumstance.

Where a sense of "self" is not wanting to be exposed by the directness of people but at the same time I want to understand "other" even if I struggle to at times. I am empathic young man and this not through lack of care nor wanting. I care deeply.

Logic and literalism are not the name of the game for me to "decode" the word around me it's sensing, patterning and feeling to gain an "understanding". I am using a different part of my brain.

So as with AS Autism has many different presentations too this is mine. I think it is important to know differences it has helped me so much to know that. #Quote by Paul Isaacs

#161. Autistics are not trapped or lost humans. I'm here, get used to it. #Quote by TinaJ. Richardson

#162. Having Simultanagnosia (object blindness), Prosopagnosia (face blindness) and Semantic Agnosia (meaning blindness) goes in my favour with regards to abstract art living in world full of fragmented pieces when I draw it is in real time no visual memory means no "pre-formatted" picture in my mind so I go where my hand takes it's like journey that is happening in the moment, hence why I drew these without my lenses on. When I was younger I would draw pictures by "route" which made it a appear that I had a visual memory (cobbling together things out of context and making a contextual image) #Quote by Paul Isaacs

#163. Do the best you can and never stop. #Quote by Stephen Wiltshire

#164. Everything can be summed up into an equation. #Quote by Alexei Maxim Russell

#165. As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism. #Quote by Deron Williams

#166. I like what Don Imus has done through the years to help kids with cancer at the Imus Ranch. He has raised awareness about autism. He has done any number of good things. #Quote by Steve Capus

#167. Autism is not the end of the World. . . just the beginning of a new one. #Quote by Sally Meyers

#168. Go to every IEP with a plan of your own. Be the expert. Teachers and therapists know general information only. You, on the other-hand, know the specifics about your child – you are your child's only real expert. Pop in unexpectedly to observe. Keep educators on their toes. Be kind and push gently. If needed, push hard. #Quote by Liz Becker

#169. People with autism might need more time, but as we grow there are countless things that we can learn how to do, so even if you can't see your efforts bear fruit, please don't quit. Our lives are still ahead of us. Some kinds of success can be won by, and only by, sheer effort and sweat. We all have to bear in mind that adulthood lasts a lot longer than childhood. #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#170. They had been through hell when their little boy was born, and now they were suffering again. Knowing something, but then having it confirmed by an expert are two different things. Their life with autism had begun. #Quote by Michael Braccia

#171. Do not compare yourself with others. Its our uniqueness that makes us who we are. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#172. I wish people could read my thoughts instead of having to put them into words. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#173. Why was it considered normal for a girl to live for fashion and makeup, but not car engines or bugs? And what about sports fanatics? My mom had a boyfriend who would flip out if he missed even a minute of a football game. Wouldn't that be what doctors considered autistic behavior? #Quote by Tara Kelly

#174. I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas, there was no drinking, and mercifully, nobody talked about love. #Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#175. I now know that surrendering, allowing, and "BE-ing" is far more productive than grasping for control. I don't know why one child is born with autism and another isn't, or why some children have to fight cancer and some don't. I have lived long enough to know that life is not fair, never will be fair, and we shouldn't expect it to be. #Quote by Jenn Bruer

#176. In the first sixteen years of my life, my parents took me to at least a dozen so called professionals. Not one of them ever came close to figuring out wheat was wrong with me. In their defense, I will concede that Asperger's did not yet exist as a diagnosis, but autism did, and no one ever mentioned I might have any kind of autistic spectrum disorder. Autism was viewed by many as a much more extreme condition - one where kids never talked and could not take care of themselves. Rather than take a close sympathetic look at me, it proved easier and less controversial for the professionals to say I was just lazy, or angry, or defiant. But none of those words led to a solution to my problem. #Quote by John Elder Robison

#177. As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism or who has some special needs issue. #Quote by Holly Robinson Peete

#178. Neurotypical people seem to think and feel that it's okay to be rigid as long as their ideas are shared by enough people. #Quote by Temple Grandin

#179. Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability. #Quote by Stuart Duncan

#180. I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine;
watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school;
count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over
and I am only a little afraid
of the night. #Quote by Stasia Ward Kehoe

#181. Autistic reality is of much value as non-Autistic reality #Quote by Jeanette Purkis

#182. I avoid the sparks in peoples eyes - it feels like it eats into my soul #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#183. Education is supposed to help the child and parents: it mustn't end up being a kind of holding cell. For this reason, our education must not be overly defined by the views of outsiders, or be unquestioningly compliant with the values and beliefs of specialists. Of paramount importance is that the special needs education be a suitable fit for each and every student. #Quote by Naoki Higashida

#184. I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is now two, and be absolutely paranoid, particularly because he loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and lots of autys love Thomas. But he is not very good at pointing, and autistic children absolutely love pointing. #Quote by Helena Bonham Carter

#185. I find some things difficult to grasp. I need to be shown or taught a few different ways sometimes before I figure it out #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#186. Her mind interprets the world differently. She feels and sees things with a unique perspective. This is what makes her so magnificent. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#187. I have the Asperger's syndrome and that means I'm sometimes a bit different from the norm. And - given the right circumstances - being different is a superpower. It makes you think differently. And especially in such a big crisis like this one we need to think outside the box. We need to think outside our current system, that we need people that think outside the box and who aren't like everyone else. #Quote by Greta Thunberg

#188. I'm not ashamed of myself I am ashamed at the people that judge me without knowledge #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#189. As an autistic, I have thoughts and ideas of my own. Not all people on the spectrum think the same. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#190. On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone. #Quote by Jodi Picoult

#191. I don't know how to talk to people. Social rules are difficult to understand as they keep changing. I never know what people expect from me. #Quote by Tina J. Richardson

#192. When you're dealing with a problem as complex as autism, you have to look at it from many different points of view and assemble evidence from many different vantage points. Biological evidence in humans and in animals, toxicologic evidence, how does the body deal with toxins, and evidence looking at the actual experience in populations. #Quote by Harvey V. Fineberg

#193. We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services. #Quote by Jenny McCarthy

#194. Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality. #Quote by Adrienne Bailon

#195. A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people. #Quote by Adrienne Bailon

#196. It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum. #Quote by Temple Grandin

#197. My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one. #Quote by Jim Beaver

#198. There's a saying within the Asperger community: if you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome, you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome ... Within this condition, beneath this label, the variety of personality, of humor, of behavior, is infinite. #Quote by Hugh Dancy

#199. There are strong similarities in the way horses and those with autism see the world. Horses are often born into an environment they don't understand, with overwhelming sights, sounds, and smells, and a sense that no one understands them. And when they see someone with autism, who has much the same background, and who knows them, and knows what they need - there is a connection. Since the two share the same experiences, they both relax, and seem to talk and understand each other. #Quote by Valerie Ormond

#200. I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent ... Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George
W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse. #Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb