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
My brother is severely autistic, so when I was a kid I spent a lot of time as a teenager in camps… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I can't hang around with lots of people these days because I am hypersensitive. So when I am around a lot of… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
It's always nice when someone reaches out and says, "I have an autistic brother," or "I have someone else." Some people are… — Jacquelyn Jablonski Copy Share Image
We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well,… — Hans Asperger Copy Share Image
Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
You have to get autistic kids out and expose them to things, but do this without any surprises, so they know what… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
There is three different ways that autistic kids will interact with animals.And they also need to make sure that they're not getting… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and… — Thomas Berry 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
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
I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but… — Douglas Coupland 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
“I am not a different species, an alien creature, a changeling, a robot, a freak of nature. I am a familiar word,… — Sparrow Rose Jones 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
“For parents of an autistic child this is a daunting experience, and often you feel as if you are at the mercy… — Ido Kedar 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
Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters;… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
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.… — Jeffrey Gundlach Copy Share Image
The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Vaccination programs were instituted in the late 1930s, and the first handful of autistic babies were noted in the early 1940s. When… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
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… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“The word “autism” still conveys a fixed and dreadful meaning to most people—they visualize a child mute, rocking, screaming, inaccessible, cut off… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
A lot of the moms of autistic kids I met are so consumed with being their child's advocate that there's no room… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There's no doubt having an autistic child represents tremendous challenges for both the children and their parents, but in my experience, it… — Manny Alvarez Copy Share Image
In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“The word “autistic” is accurate. But so are other words that we no longer use to describe people: spinster (unmarried woman), hobo… — Ellen Notbohm Copy Share Image
• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“If the frustrations are not surrounded by anxiety, fear of life, insecure love and support, then the child progresses easily and naturally… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
No one’s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Individuals are labeled “different,” “geeky,” “abnormal,” or even “Aspergian” or “autistic” at a young age. Among other things, these labels suggest that… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
