“The number of 8-year-olds with an autism spectrum disorder rose from 1 in 88 (or 11.3 per 1,000) in 2008 to 1… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many people with autism struggle with reading nonverbal cues and acting on them. When you lose that ability to understand and process… — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
A lot of families with kids with autism can't afford speech therapy for their children and can't afford to get them in… — Alex Bregman Copy Share Image
Relatively many autists are first-born children. There is also a pretty widespread conviction that the parents of autists are somehow different -… — Nikolaas Tinbergen Copy Share Image
If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
“My colors ran all over the page, poured out of the lines and meshed together to form colors no one had yet… — Jeannie Davide-Rivera Copy Share Image
Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“As in the matter of cures, treatments are usually argued against using patient's rights or civil rights as a defense. What makes… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Increasingly, lawmakers and law enforcement authorities are not being fooled by the “autism made me do it” defense. This may actually be… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
Rain Man certainly didn't test really well. If you look at it carefully, you have a disease autism they didn't understand back… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
“Abhed, my father had called heredity-"indivisible." There is an old trope in popular culture of the "crazy genius," a mind split between… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Asperger's Syndrome is a neurological condition, not a mental illness. Some parts of your brain are over-wired, and work more than other… — Carol Shay Hornung Copy Share Image
“After all, aren’t autistic people supposed to lack empathy? This is a common mistake. My children, who are both on the severe… — Stephen J. Bedard Copy Share Image
“I've met so many parents of the kids who are on the low end of the autism spectrum, kids who are diametrically… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“To call oneself a journalist when one has no established qualifications is “bad”, but to tack the “autistic” qualifier onto title is… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“This can be true, although interestingly, it is usually tainted breast milk that is blamed for either “poisoning” a child and causing… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“However, the difference between some people on the spectrum and most NTs, is that people on the spectrum are more likely to… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Reflecting on my Autism - The processing and communication issues that I have I look at it like this I have had… — Paul Isaacs Copy Share Image
“When something is "all in your mind," people tend to think that it's willful, that it's something you could control if only… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Many autistic people fight against the environment every day, and no one sees, no one knows, because on the outside they appear… — Liz Becker Copy Share Image
I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list… — Liane Holliday Willey Copy Share Image
“Could some of the challenging behaviours that often partner autism begin as experiments on measuring human reactions? Are these children exploring boundaries… — Adele Devine Copy Share Image
The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
I strongly believe as a mother, as does my husband, that there are certain contributing factors that lead to autism and some… — Kelly Preston Copy Share Image
My life - autism's an important part of it, but it bothers me when I see kids where autism and their autism… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“If I tried to describe what it’s like to be nonverbal in the World of the Verbal in a single word, I’d… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
“A secondary problem is that childhood vaccines in modern times do not contain thimerosal (although some flu vaccines do), yet while the… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at.… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests… — Morton Ann Gernsbacher Copy Share Image
“Naoki is anticipating his audience’s emotions and manipulating them. That is empathy. The conclusion is that both emotional poverty and an aversion… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
Following bio-medical treatment - which is basically changing the diet, giving vitamins and supplements and detoxing the body from metals or candida… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Why was it considered normal for a girl to live for fashion and makeup, but not car engines or bugs? And what… — Tara Kelly Copy Share Image
When I first started in this field there were all kinds of stereotypes about autism, as if these were children from another… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
One area of study that still needs to be done is the kind of autism where kids have speech and they lose… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Girls are generally recognized as superior mimics. Those with [Asperger's Syndrome] hold back and observe until they learn the 'rules', then imitate… — Tony Attwood Copy Share Image
“I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine; watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
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