Autism Quotes - Page 7

• These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.

  Temple Grandin

  Doctors, Other Half, Diagnosis

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

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• My life - autism's an important part of it, but it bothers me when I see kids where autism and their autism is the only thing they think about. I'd rather have them think about, you know, some art work they were gonna do or some science they wanted to do.

  Temple Grandin

  Art, Kids, Thinking

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

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• I read a lot on autism, which is surprisingly and annoyingly a huge mystery.

  Andrea Suarez Paz

  Mystery, Huge

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Though Autism can be frightening and terribly demanding, it also comes with its vast share of superpowers that are unknown to the typical human.

  Andrea Suarez Paz

  Typical, Share, Frightening

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When we come to research, if we want to find out the cause of autism, we're going to have to be much more specific, and that's why when it comes to research, I'm fairly strict with respect to criteria. When it comes to treatment, I'm much more open to not making that differentiation.

  Darold Treffert

  Differentiation, Research, Want

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

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• I have a fairly strict definition of early infantile autism. That is not to say that people who don't meet that classic description don't have autism, but we might do well to narrow our definitions, and our samples, down to groups that are very similar, because I think you're more likely to find the cause.

  Darold Treffert

  Thinking, People, Groups

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

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• The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous scientists and musicians. And we've got to work on strengths. We also have to work on teaching basic manners and skills.

  Temple Grandin

  Teaching, Skills, Musician

  Source: www.kshb.com

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• Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.

  John Donvan

  Eye, Years, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are disagreements over whether autism is something that should be always and all the time embraced and celebrated as just a different way to be human, or whether autism sometimes can be really so debilitating to individuals that you want to do something to change those disabilities in them.

  John Donvan

  Different, Want, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you know, Van Gogh. And at the other end of the spectrum, you got much more severe handicaps where they never learn to speak.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Valleys, Half

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

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• 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.

  Temple Grandin

  Sound, Attention, Research

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

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• I was nonverbal until I was four years old. Back in the 50s, I was the kind of kid they used to just put away in an institution. But then you get the milder autism where there's no speech delay, but they're socially awkward. Those kids were around when I was a child. They were just called geeks and nerds.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Kids, Years

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

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• I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Art, Kids

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

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• Autism; It's not new just because you haven't heard of it until now.

  Stuart Duncan

  Heard, Havens

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• We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are a consequence of that spiritual 'autism.'

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Stars, Talking

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.59, The Golden Sufi Center

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• We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers. We have also learned that the parents have been our best investigators in looking for both causes of autism and for treatments.

  Dan Burton

  Children, Believe, Vaccines

  Dan Burton's Opening Statement during Congressional Hearing "The Status of Research into Vaccine Safety and Autism", www.gpo.gov. June 19, 2002.

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• Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile from the inside is seeing something beautiful, or a memory makes us laugh. This generally happens when there's nobody watching us. And at night, on our own, we might burst out laughing underneath the duvet, or roar with later in an empty room ... When we don't need to think about other people or anything else, that's when we wear our aural expressions.

  Naoki Higashida

  Beautiful, Memories, Night

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• 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.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Mother, Hurt, Kids

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• Following bio-medical treatment - which is basically changing the diet, giving vitamins and supplements and detoxing the body from metals or candida - and he recovered. And the reason the medical community has such a hard time with this is because we are treating and healing a vaccine injury ... this is truly a revolution.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Healing, Hard Times, Vaccines

  "16 Things Jenny McCarthy Has Actually Said" by Aly Weisman, www.businessinsider.com. July 15, 2013.

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• You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

  Claire Danes

  Brave, Misunderstood, Helping

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• Without a doubt in my mind, I believe that vaccinations triggered Evan's autism.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Believe, Doubt, Mind

  "Rabid Conspiracy Theorist Jenny McCarthy Desperately Spins: 'I'm Not Anti-Vaccine'" by Scott Whitlock, www.newsbusters.org. April 14, 2014.

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• Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

  Rene Daumal

  Change, Gold, Common Experience

  Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.21, The Overlook Press

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• 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.

  Dean Hamer

  Strong, Differences, Personality

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• Exploring Feelings for Young Children with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger's Disorder: The STAMP Treatment Manual offers practical recommendations and creative practices that will certainly help young children with high functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome overcome their struggles with the really tough issues blocking their positive growth and development. Therapists, educators and parents caring for autistic children who endure a heavy load of anger, distrust, difficult interpersonal relationships, poor self-esteem and self-doubt need this excellent book.

  Liane Holliday Willey

  Children, Self Esteem, Block

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• Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Giving, Parent

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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