Autistic Quotes - Page 2

• I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.

  Temple Grandin

  Numbers, Adults, Prozac

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Certainly not everybody that is different is necessarily autistic, but there are a lot of undiagnosed people and it’s not necessarily something that needs to have attention to it, unless that person is feeling uncomfortable in the world or they need extra help or something.

  Jasika Nicole

  Extra Help, People, Feelings

  "HitFix Interview: Jasika Nicole talks ‘Fringe’". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 14, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Recovery, School, Kids

  7 Copy quote

• At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, School, Kids

  17 Copy quote

• It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Kids, Vacation

  7 Copy quote

• Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

  Temple Grandin

  Parenting, Emotional, White

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

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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, Autism

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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't hang around with lots of people these days because I am hypersensitive. So when I am around a lot of people or a big roomful of people I get almost autistic. I get overwhelmed and really tired. So I don't like being around large groups.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Tired, People, Groups

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child.

  Stuart Duncan

  Jobs, Children, Parent

  6 Copy quote

• People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, People, Spectrum

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

  Claire Danes

  People, Empathy, Assuming

  4 Copy quote

• We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.

  Dan Marino

  Change, Children, Florida

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

• People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.

  Oliver Sacks

  Our World, People, Interesting

  143 Copy quote

• 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.

  Nikki Reed

  Brother, Autism, Charity

  6 Copy quote

• In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon our inner rage against the conditions of our earthly existence, that we renew our human participation in the grand liturgy of the universe.

  Thomas Berry

  Environmental, Attention, Demand

  Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (1996). “Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth”, Random House (NY)

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

  John Travolta

  Sleep, Son, Suffering

  4 Copy quote

• Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

  Melanie Roach

  Children, Challenges, Relief

  4 Copy quote

• No one’s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You’re at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you’re staring at a screen, searching for strangers in Dubai.

  Dave Eggers

  Communication, Ties, Dubai

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• I am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7 months old after receiving numerous vaccinations in a single day; the same story that is told by thousands of other parents of children throughout the country whose healthy, normally developing children have become autistic after vaccinations.

  Rick Rollens

  Country, Children, Father

  4 Copy quote

• I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

  Andrew Hill

  Music, Crazy, Eccentric

  7 Copy quote

• No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even so, I believe what is truly essential to the success of any relationship is not so much compatibility, but love. When you love someone, virtually anything is possible.

  Daniel Tammet

  Believe, When You Love Someone, Essentials

  Daniel Tammet (2007). “Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source