Autism Quotes - Page 3

• I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Life, Order, Ifs

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.221, Ballantine Books

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• When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.

  Temple Grandin

  Blood, Drug, Sugar

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Country, Children, Women

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• If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Polio Vaccine, Vaccines, Giving

  "Jenny McCarthy on Autism and Vaccines". Interview with Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. April 1, 2009.

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• If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Parent, Measles

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• I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.

  Temple Grandin

  Treatment, Integrated, Believer

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 01, 1996.

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• 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.

  Fred Melamed

  Children, Believe, Two

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• I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.

  Tony Attwood

  Inspiring, People, Aspergers

  Tony Attwood (2006). “The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome”, p.345, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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• 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.

  Claire Danes

  Expression, Doe, Kind

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• Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".

  Hans Asperger

  Abnormal, Lines, Aspergers

  "Neurotribes review - the evolution of our understanding of autism" by Saskia Baron, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2015.

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• Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Lying, Parent, Care

  "Preventing Another Generation of Children With Autism" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don'treally understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.

  John Elder Robison

  Looks, Aspergers, Perfectly Natural

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• I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.

  Jet Li

  Children, Important Relationships, Parent

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• 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.

  Helen Mirren

  Real, Our World, People

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• This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces.

  Jim Sinclair

  Dream, Moving, One Day

  "Don't Mourn for Us". Autism Network International newsletter, "Our Voice", Volume 1, Number 3, 1993.

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• If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

  Temple Grandin

  Space, Delay, Yaks

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• I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Sorry, Moving, Doctors

  Jenny McCarthy (2007). “Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism”, p.75, Penguin

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• There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

  Temple Grandin

  Yaks, Geek, Genetics

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• 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.

  Temple Grandin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.

  John Donvan

  Looks, Behavior, Defined

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Never ask for someone's thoughts on autism unless you are prepared to hear a story that doesn't resemble your own.

  Stuart Duncan

  Stories, Prepared, Asks

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• True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Hate, Fall

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at. Being with people who share your interests makes socializing easier.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Special, Clubs

  Temple Grandin (2011). “The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's”, p.164, BookBaby

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• Winning isn't the end of the world

  David Pleat

  Letting Go, Being Single, Breast Cancer

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• I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

  Joseph Mawle

  Children, Struggle, Teaching

  "Joseph Mawle: 'I've played some despicable characters'". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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