Everyone recognises that genes are part of the story but autism isn't 100% genetic. Even if you have identical twins who share… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David’d wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long… — Cynthia Lord Copy Share Image
If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst… — Temple Grandin 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
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
“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
“For the record, I seldom see real-life autistics stalking people online with the zeal that fakers do, and I do not often… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Divergent Dynamite (The Sonnet) You only know my infinite radiance, you got no clue to my innate hurricane. Day in and day… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“This is where I go, when I go: It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the… — Jim Sinclair Copy Share Image
“I think that, as a result of all the killings in the world and the selfish planet-wrecking that humanity has committed, a… — Naoki Higashida David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“It means I'm trusting and literal and I've been underestimated and misunderstood more than my pride would like me to admit. And… — Chloe Liese Copy Share Image
“People with autism don't need wheelchairs, artifical legs, or a guide dog. Their prosthesis is people,' says Ruth Christ Sullivan, Ph.D., a… — Chantal Sicile-Kira 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
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
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
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
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 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
My brother was diagnosed with autism, so it's something that hits close to home. And as I got older - especially when… — Jacquelyn Jablonski 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“Lesson for today… just because an autistic child seems intensely focused on numbers, facts and history, does NOT mean they don't feel… — Liz Becker Copy Share Image
Saying you "have" something implies that it's temporary and undesirable. Asperger's isn't like that. You've been Aspergian as long as you can… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
Families in the autism community have shared with me their fears as their children transition to adulthood. Many people lose access to… — Mikie Sherrill Copy Share Image
In the person with autism, the brain may already be seeing the part and be less distracted by the whole, and in… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers.… — Dan Burton Copy Share Image
Working with children with autism is difficult, tiring work, especially since the social rewards - the smile, the eye-contact, the hug, the… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
There's a saying within the Asperger community: if you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome, you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
“Autism is not a disease to be cured, autism is normal, a different kind of normal, but normal no less, and with… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
