When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Autism typically means a person may not be fully aware of the consequences of their actions, or understand the consequences of their… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
Every time I score now, I'm going to make an 'A' sign for Albi. But also, it's quite cool like an 'A'… — Paul Mullin Copy Share Image
It's not just the child that has autism. It's the whole family that has autism. It's not a one person thing, — Ted Lindsay Copy Share Image
“All of the features that characterize Asperger syndrome can be found in varying degrees in the normal population” — Lorna Wing Copy Share Image
Hugs may come less frequently from someone with autism but when they do, you know it means everything. — Stuart Duncan Copy Share Image
“Even autistics who are self-assured, self-actualized, and happy with who they are, recognize that not all of their traits are spectacular, or… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
I've got my one area I work in and I want to educate people about autism and I also want to improve,… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments… — John Donvan Copy Share Image
For a long time our son was a little boy with autism, which was a certain kind of challenge. Now that he's… — Anonymous 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 thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how… — Temple Grandin 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
“I mean: if you’re going outside to look for your sister, I get it.” Max goes silent. Maybe Mirjam’s death is hitting… — Corinne Duyvis Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism",… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
“Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often… — Adele Devine 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
“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
The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“I Have a Dream... someday my son, Zyon and ALL individuals with disabilities will be seen as HUMAN beings. I Have a… — Yvonne Pierre Copy Share Image
In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
“Children with disabilities are stronger than we know, they fight the battles that most will never know.” — Misti Renea Neely Copy Share Image
“When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan.” — Adele Devine Copy Share Image
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis. — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“People don't suffer from Asperger's. They suffer because they're depressed from being beat up and left out all the time” — Justin Mulvaney Copy Share Image
“Yes, raising a child with autism can be highly demanding, but please remember, just as you worry about your child, so your… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“Also I didn't have 20/20 vision which you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
“Autism isn't your fault. Each child has the ability to grow. Those words saved me from a dark place.” — Keiko Tobe Copy Share Image
Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
