Autism Quotes

Autism is not a snapshot. It's a life.

— Gerald Fischbach

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

— Terry Pratchett

Autism is a very serious condition.

— George Osborne

“Autism is Treatable”

— Angela Williamson

Together, we’ll beat autism.

— Ted Lindsay

“There are skeletons in this earth.”

— Corinne Duyvis

Autism is part of who I am.

— Temple Grandin

I walk slowly, but never backwards.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Thomas McKean, an autistic champion of self-advocacy”

— Temple Grandin

Autism doesn't seem to have a seasonal component, unlike some forms of depression.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

“You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.”

— Will Rogers

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

— Anonymous

Children with special needs inspire a special love.

— Sarah Palin

In fact, many children come to autism clinics early on with GI/bowel disturbances.

— Gerald Fischbach

“I want the word Autism to provoke an image of a wonderful and unique person.”

— Amanda Baggs

“There’s so much evidence vaccines could be the cause of autism,”

— Katy Evans

“It is my own personal opinion that for someone to state that an autistic person 'lacks empathy' is to declare ignorance of…

— Liz Becker

If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front…

— Temple Grandin

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've…

— Temple Grandin

“This world we live in is confusing, overwhelming and painful because he has a condition known as autism.”

— Tina Traverse

“The autistic mind is not the wave at the surface of the ocean, but the whole world that exists below.”

— Krissy Bells

“I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to…

— Anne Nesbet

“We, on the spectrum, are often misconstrued as rude or audacious. Problem is not that we feel too little, but that we…

— Abhijit Naskar

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

— Darold Treffert

Emotion-enabled wearable glasses can help individuals who are visually impaired read the faces of others, and it can help individuals on the…

— Rana el Kaliouby

“Children with disabilities might, to your eyes, look stuck in a perpetual childhood, but our thoughts and sensibilities evolve constantly. So, using…

— Naoki Higashida

“People with Asperger’s or autism expend a huge amount of mental energy each day coping with socializing, anxiety, change, sensory sensitivity, daily…

— Laura James

“I think the argument that, when a cell senses danger, it changes its metabolism to protect itself makes a lot of sense…

— Anonymous

“Everybody else possessed the key to popularity and happiness, and his clumsy attempts to find his own key always ended with other…

— Belinda Bauer

Genes are thought to contribute a certain amount to the cause of autism but it's not 100 per cent. It might be…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

“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

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

“There was one time when Papa asked him, 'Bunso, why do you love me?' We were surprised when he answered, 'I love…

— Sharon Joyce S. Valdez

“What these autistic rights groups also fail to understand, is that every time funding increases -or a law is passed- while that…

— Thomas D. Taylor

“He knew the way he spoke wasn't right, but it was the only way the words came. The thoughts in his head…

— Boris Akunin

I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the…

— Michael Savage

When you're dealing with a problem as complex as autism, you have to look at it from many different points of view…

— Harvey V. Fineberg

You take somebody - one person has definitely got autism, you got another person that maybe has some of those traits and…

— Temple Grandin

“Your child, too, will one day be an adult. For them to live life with the same degree of independence as neurotypical…

— Naoki Higashida

“I see autism as having many different strands. All of these strands are beautiful. They are all the colours of the rainsbow…

— J.M. Worgan