Following bio-medical treatment - which is basically changing the diet, giving vitamins and supplements and detoxing the body from metals or candida… — Jenny McCarthy 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
When I first started in this field there were all kinds of stereotypes about autism, as if these were children from another… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
One area of study that still needs to be done is the kind of autism where kids have speech and they lose… — Temple Grandin 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
“Naoki is anticipating his audience’s emotions and manipulating them. That is empathy. The conclusion is that both emotional poverty and an aversion… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at.… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“We don’t talk on the ride home. We don’t have to. I feel warm and giddy and like I have a secret… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
“So how do people with autism see the world, exactly? We, only we, can ever know the answer to that one! Sometimes… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it.… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Comparing children of a 45-year-old dad to those of a 24-year-old father it indicated: autism was more than three times as likely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People can only understand their own pain. Even a genuine desire to help a person with a disability can become a burden… — Naoki Higashida 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
“They say, and I have reason to believe, that in times of intellectual laziness we are at our most genus when we… — LampoonTop's 1925 autobiographica Copy Share Image
“A secondary problem is that childhood vaccines in modern times do not contain thimerosal (although some flu vaccines do), yet while the… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“It seems that between one-third and one-sixth of autistic people lose major skills in adolescence. Of those, about half will gain the… — Autism Women's Network Copy Share Image
When the link between the use of unsafe, mercury-laden vaccine and autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will… — Bernard Rimland Copy Share Image
My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism… — Daniel Tammet 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
“I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine; watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
“However, the difference between some people on the spectrum and most NTs, is that people on the spectrum are more likely to… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Reflecting on my Autism - The processing and communication issues that I have I look at it like this I have had… — Paul Isaacs Copy Share Image
“This can be true, although interestingly, it is usually tainted breast milk that is blamed for either “poisoning” a child and causing… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must… — Jenny McCarthy 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
“If I tried to describe what it’s like to be nonverbal in the World of the Verbal in a single word, I’d… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
I strongly believe as a mother, as does my husband, that there are certain contributing factors that lead to autism and some… — Kelly Preston Copy Share Image
The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
My life - autism's an important part of it, but it bothers me when I see kids where autism and their autism… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list… — Liane Holliday Willey 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
“Could some of the challenging behaviours that often partner autism begin as experiments on measuring human reactions? Are these children exploring boundaries… — Adele Devine Copy Share Image
“When something is "all in your mind," people tend to think that it's willful, that it's something you could control if only… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
“Whom a person in the autism community is friends with is very important. Alliances are forged against people who have certain friends,… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
In America we've spent over a billion dollars on autism research. What have we got for that? We've not seen anything that's… — Ari Ne'eman Copy Share Image
“Most autistics will reveal their perseverative interests when they are interested in finding someone else to talk to about them. Sometimes, however,… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
