My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I'm hoping that autism is going to get to that same point, where it becomes quite ordinary to say, 'I have autism,'… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
I have two boys on the autism spectrum. I don't always know what's best for them. However, I know there is grace… — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a… — Holly Robinson Peete Copy Share Image
“The best reaction to our mistakes will vary from person to person, and according to his or her age, but please remember:… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
With the incredible rate of growth of autism diagnoses in New Jersey, it is critical that we support the research, education, and… — Mikie Sherrill Copy Share Image
“You look beautiful even when you cry. I mean, not that you don’t look beautiful when you’re happy. Of course, you’re beautiful… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
What do we know about autism in 2013? Autism symptoms generally emerge before age three and usually much earlier, often as language… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted… — William Thompson Copy Share Image
One thing I'd like to just keep on doing is I want to educate people about animal behavior and about autism. I've… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“The argument most often heard in favor of the registries after they are established, is that, given the violence perpetuated by many… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
“The amount of bickering that most autistics engage in over politics is probably no greater than the bickering seen between people who… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“We do take pleasure in one thing that you probably won't be able to guess. Namely, making friends with nature. ... nature… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
“A counterargument is that nonfunctional autistics who could benefit from a treatment and a cure but elect not to pursue either of… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
When you've grown up always knowing that there's something that seemed to be different about you from most people - and not… — Anne Hegerty Copy Share Image
Don't think that there's a different, better child 'hiding' behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of… — Claire LaZebnik Copy Share Image
“My point: please don’t think that by not pushing someone toward a goal or by not stretching their abilities, you’re automatically making… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
William Stillman continues his fascinating exploration of the myriad connections between autism and human personality. The Soul of Autism makes a strong… — Dean Hamer Copy Share Image
I deliver babies for a living. I have certainly delivered more than 150 children in my lifetime, yet I'm always puzzled when… — Manny Alvarez Copy Share Image
“If there is one part of the world that should be suffering from severe autism, it is people who live in the… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“However, why does it so often fail to dawn on them that if we’re smart enough to understand their instructions, we might… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was… — Jim Beaver 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
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
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
“Children with ASD can grow beyond their limitations and develop into wonderful, productive citizens. All we have to do is see through… — Karina Poirier Copy Share Image
“Don’t fall into the trap of believing that if we are good at one thing, we will be good at some totally… — Autism Women's Network Copy Share Image
I do clearly have quite a lot of the behavioural traits that people who are diagnosed as autistic do have. But it's… — Tom Rosenthal Copy Share Image
It may be true in the case of autism that if you start off with a deficit in terms of empathy or… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
Back then, people thought if you could talk you didn't have autism. I was just seen as this slightly odd child. I… — Anne Hegerty Copy Share Image
In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“Traveling with people who have special needs might present difficulties, but please, let it happen. We all need a break and a… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
Most people think that it would be hard to be on a set or act for people with autism. But when you… — Brigette Lundy-Paine Copy Share Image
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
