Autism Quotes - Page 8

• When parents say, "I wish my child did not have autism," what they’re really saying is, "I wish the autistic child I have did not exist, and I had a different [nonautistic] child instead." Read that again. This is what we hear when you mourn over our existence. This is what we hear when you pray for a cure. 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, Children, Moving

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

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• Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

  Temple Grandin

  Common Sense, Too Much, Sometimes

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• If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

  Temple Grandin

  Motivational, Change, Positive

  "The Most Inspiring Bits of Temple Grandin’s Reddit AMA" by Emily Shire, www.thedailybeast.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Hard Work, Artist, Individuality

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• The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Vaccines, Risk

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• Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors listed above: the increasing number of vaccines, the large amount of mercury, and the inherent danger of the triple vaccine.....The MMR vaccine is also especially suspect because laboratories in England, Ireland, and Japan have found evidence of MMR vaccine viruses in the intestinal tracts of autistic children, but not in control group, non-autistic children.

  Bernard Rimland

  Children, Japan, Vaccines

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• I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

  Temple Grandin

  Believe, Suffering, Pool

  Temple Grandin (2008). “Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism”, p.217, Vintage

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  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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• But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.

  Temple Grandin

  Lame, Answers, Blind

  Temple Grandin (2009). “Thinking in Pictures”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Son, Want, Diagnosis

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• 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?

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Real, Kids

  "In the Vaccine-Autism Debate, What Can Parents Believe?" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.

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• You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.

  Temple Grandin

  Stupid, People, Ifs

  Temple Grandin (2011). “The Way I See it: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's”, p.275, Future Horizons

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• 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Smart, Cat, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Never underestimate someone with Autism, because there could be Brilliance struggling to get out.

  Stuart Duncan

  Struggle, Underestimate, Brilliance

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• 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.

  Jim Beaver

  Daughter, Father, Cancer

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• Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Government, Epidemics, Needs

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

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• Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Children, Improvement, Complicated

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. August 16, 2005.

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• 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.

  Doug Flutie

  People, Community, Together

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• Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

  Jon Krakauer

  Heaven, Projects, Form

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• 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.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Recovery, Helping Others

  "Who’s Afraid Of The Truth About Autism?" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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• Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.

  Clay Aiken

  Children, Inspiration, Opportunity

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• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Business, Good Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]

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• 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.

  Temple Grandin

  Mother, Teacher, Giving Up

  "Temple Grandin on her struggles and ‘yak yaks’" by Joan Raymond, www.nbcnews.com. February 02, 2010.

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• Vaccination programs were instituted in the late 1930s, and the first handful of autistic babies were noted in the early 1940s. When vaccination programs were expanded after the war, the number of autistic children increased greatly.

  Harris L Coulter

  Baby, Children, War

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