Autistic Quotes - Page 4

• Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really hard for them, but it can happen.

  Tisha Campbell-Martin

  Children, Our World, Happens

  "Tisha Campbell & Duane Martin: Through the Fire". "Essence.com" Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don't give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic. He's just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.

  Denis Leary

  Mother, Jobs, Dad

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.98, Penguin

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• I'm glad Carol Vorderman has left Countdown, I mean it's not like she did much. She was effectively just an autistic shelf-stacker.

  Michael McIntyre

  Witty, Mean, Shelves

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• Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Cute, Children, Skills

  "I (Robot) Thee Wed". www.slate.com. May 04, 2012.

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• A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Writing, Animal

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• If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream.

  Jean Piaget

  Dream, Baby, Hands

  "The First Year of Life of the Child". Book by Jean Piaget, "The Egocentrism of the Child and the Solipsism of the Baby", translated by Howard E. Gruber and J. Jacques Vonèche, 1927.

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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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• • People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Sympathy, Children, Cancer

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Oct 30, 2015

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• Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us.

  Thomas Berry

  Rain, Wind, Listening

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• The inanity of her remark infuriated him. 'Good grief don't you understand Janet? At this point I'm thoroughly delusional. I'm as mentally ill as it's possible to be. It's incredible that I can communicate with you at all. It's a credit to my ego-strength that I'm not at this point totally autistic.

  Philip K. Dick

  Grief, Ego, Credit

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Simulacra”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The first expert said he had attention deficit disorder. The second expert said the first was out of order. One said he was autistic, another that he was artistic. One said he had Tourette's syndrome. One said he had Asperger's syndrome. And one said the problem was that his parents had Munchausen syndrome. Still another said all he needed was a good old-fashioned spanking.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Order, Parent, Experts

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• There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.

  Darold Treffert

  Educational, Parent, Doe

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

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• When I was diagnosed, mothers were blamed for causing autism. There was no autism support. They'd put autistic kids in institutions. I had severe autism. But my mom wouldn't accept that. I was put in speech therapy. My mother was always pushing me to do stuff.

  Temple Grandin

  Mom, Mother, Kids

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• You have to get autistic kids out and expose them to things, but do this without any surprises, so they know what to expect. You have to find skilled mentors to teach them things. For me, it was an aunt, and it was my science teacher. You need to find the things they're interested in and good at and expand on this.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Kids, Aunt

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Social interactions can be enormously challenging for people on the spectrum. That's part of the reason that unemployment among autistic adults hovers near 80 percent.

  John Donvan

  People, Challenges, Reason

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's a reason why trainspotters are not girls, there's a reason why there's the myth of the slightly autistic male genius, there's a reason why Gertrude Stein believed that her self-presentation was male. One could argue that was Susan Sontag also. The things that we associate with femaleness are not the single-minded, exclusive pursuit of a vocation, whether it be art or anything else. It is not a model that is widespread in our culture, it's not something we think of for women.

  Claire Messud

  Girl, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you see a child with autistic-like behaviors at age two and three, the worst thing you can do is just let them sit and watch TV all day. That's just the worst thing you can do. You need to have a teacher working with that child, working on teaching language, working on social interaction, working on getting them interested in different things, and keeping their brain connected to the world.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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

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• I feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists. There'd be no computer people. You'd lose a lot of artists and musicians. There'd be a horrible price to pay.

  Temple Grandin

  Artist, People, Musician

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

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• We're all a little nit autistic.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Littles

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• In America we've spent over a billion dollars on autism research. What have we got for that? We've not seen anything that's appreciably impacted the quality of life of autistic people, regardless of their place on the spectrum. Quite frankly, we've spent $1bn figuring out how to make mice autistic and we'll spend another $1bn figuring out how to make them not autistic. And that's not what the average person wakes up in the morning aspiring to. They think: am I going to be able to find a job, to communicate, to live independently, either on my own or with support? Those are the real priorities.

  Ari Ne'eman

  Morning, Jobs, Real

  "Andrew Wakefield: autism inc" by Alex Hannaford, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• I don't often know where my ideas come from. Maybe it's the fact that I'm obsessively regimented in my analysis, borderline autistic. But whether it's bond selection or asset allocation, we can do it better than just about anybody around.

  Jeffrey Gundlach

  Ideas, Analysis, Facts

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• By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Skills, Acting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

  Andrew Solomon

  People, May, Nobody Knows

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• One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

  Luke Ford

  Kids, Autism, Growing

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• It's always nice when someone reaches out and says, "I have an autistic brother," or "I have someone else." Some people are really sweet and they're like, "Aw, you're my role model, thank you for doing this." This is why I do it. I want to use being involved in this Autism Speaks charity and take advantage of my contacts in order to raise awareness. It's something I've been wanting to do for so long.

  Jacquelyn Jablonski

  Sweet, Brother, Nice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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