“Teachers should be made aware of visual stress symptoms and the potential difference coloured lights, overlays and lenses could make to a… — Adele Devine Copy Share Image
“What I, as a person with special needs, longed for was to be taught what role, what purpose, I could have in… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
I suspect that among parents or siblings of a person with autism there are higher rates of talents in systemizing. — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
Katie, 90% of the things you worry about don't happen, and the 10% that do, you can't do anything about. — Mary Fisher Copy Share Image
I'm on the autism spectrum. I don't usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way. — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
“It should be noted that a recent publication has shown that the prevalence of autism in African Americans is nearly 25% higher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
Social interactions can be enormously challenging for people on the spectrum. That's part of the reason that unemployment among autistic adults hovers… — John Donvan Copy Share Image
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Certainly not everybody that is different is necessarily autistic, but there are a lot of undiagnosed people, and it's not necessarily something… — Jasika Nicole Copy Share Image
“If coloured lenses can potentially stop the world seeming fragmented and put an end to nightmare distortions, then the learner with autism… — Adele Devine Copy Share Image
“I don't want to answer so I wait. Because sometimes if you don't answer then someone will answer for you or someone… — Benjamin Ludwig Copy Share Image
I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Being a typical teenager isn't easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these… — Holly Robinson Peete Copy Share Image
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… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it.… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
“So how do people with autism see the world, exactly? We, only we, can ever know the answer to that one! Sometimes… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
“We don’t talk on the ride home. We don’t have to. I feel warm and giddy and like I have a secret… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“While bullying happens to both males and females on the spectrum, girls, particularly, can be judgmental. Dr. Grandin advocates that some gifted… — Rudy Simone Copy Share Image
“It is easier to say that AS best describes my differences. It makes people more comfortable to have a scientific-sounding term. But… — Francisco X. Stork Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
“There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output. — Stuart Duncan Copy Share Image
People with autism flourish in domains where the information is consistent and predictable, and struggle most in domains where the information is… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
“Q25 What's the reason you jump? When I'm jumping it's as if my feelings are going upward to the sky. Really, my… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
Because people with autism are also strongly obsessional, meaning that they pursue their current interest to extraordinary detail and lengths and in… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
“The Tragedy isn't Autism - The Tragedy is the lack of understanding of Autism, Lack of resources, Interventions not being met with… — Paul Isaacs Copy Share Image
True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
When I was diagnosed, mothers were blamed for causing autism. There was no autism support. They'd put autistic kids in institutions. I… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help… — Adrienne Bailon Copy Share Image
I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
If we think about the autism spectrum as involving a very strong drive to systemize, that can have very positive consequences for… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
“If you are accepting of the belief that life can be good even with autism, then they will think so, too. You… — Chantal Sicile-Kira Copy Share Image
“Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
