Autism Quotes - Page 4

• My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, specifically). But there were certainly traits within that condition, within the autism spectrum in general, especially at the high functioning end, that I think are best looked at as pluses.

  Daniel Tammet

  Teenager, Thinking, Aspergers

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• People with autism never, ever feel at ease, wherever we are. Because of this, we wander off - or run away - in search of some location where we do feel at ease. While we're on this search, it doesn't occur to us to consider how or where we're going to end up. We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

  Naoki Higashida

  Running, People, Ease

  Naoki Higashida (2013). “The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism”, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Children, Home, Son

  "Helena's Secret Pain". Interview with Liz Jones, www.standard.co.uk. November 16, 2005.

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• Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output.

  Stuart Duncan

  Filters, Input, Output

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• 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.

  Stuart Duncan

  Children, Too Much, Enough

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• My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.

  Steve Earle

  Believe, School, Eye

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• Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome are some conditions that are superimposed and grafted on to some underlying disability. So savant syndrome is not a disease or disorder in and of itself. It is a collection of characteristics, or symptoms, or behaviors that have grafted on to the underlying disability.

  Darold Treffert

  Disease, Way, Disability

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.

  Paul A. Offit

  Heart, Blood, Vaccines

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  A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Birthday, Family

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• Together, we’ll beat autism.

  Ted Lindsay

  Together, Beats

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• It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

  Marlee Matlin

  Crazy, Madness, Disability

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• Do the best you can and never stop.

  Stephen Wiltshire

  Do The Best

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• I choose not to place "DIS," in my ability.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Disability, Ability, Ability To Choose

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• Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Perspective, Joy

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• Adults don't get nearly the attention and support the kids do, maybe because they're not as cute or because people forget that autism is lifelong. But it is.

  John Donvan

  Cute, Kids, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In fact, when we as neuro-typical people encounter a person with autism spectrum syndrome who's always been that way it is that we have to adjust. Just because we can read people with autism correctly, whatever that word is why do we always default to saying, 'Well, that kid is not normal?' What is normal?

  Tamlyn Tomita

  Kids, People

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Educational, Two

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.

  Temple Grandin

  Mind, Too Late, Spectrum

  Temple Grandin (2011). “The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's”, p.99, BookBaby

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• I volunteered at UCLA's occupational therapy ward, where there are lots of kids with autism and emotional problems. I just wanted to prove to myself that I could not break down and cry at everything, and that I could just help somebody else. The one thing I really remember was that when we would take them out of the hospital for a walk around campus, they would freak out the most when we were waiting for the elevator. I remember the guy at the elevator said to himself, "Transitions are the hardest." And I said to myself, "Transitions are always the hardest."

  Fiona Apple

  Kids, Emotional, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that if I could do any sort of research of autism that I wanted to do, at this point I would take a sample of classic, early infantile autism persons and compare them with what I call "classic late onset autism", individuals. I think we will find that the cause of those youngsters with autism who have autism from birth is probably different than those who have late onset autism.

  Darold Treffert

  Thinking, Different, Research

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part II: D". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 13, 2011.

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• People with autism aren't interested in social chit-chat.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Social, Chit Chat

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated with some degree of intellectual disability, but the two core features of autism, I see, is impairments and social cognition, understanding and in restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Epilepsy, Two, Understanding

  "What is Autism?". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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• There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.

  Temple Grandin

  Black And White, Lines, Aspergers

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

  Temple Grandin

  Valleys, Half, Littles

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Childhood, Calendars

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