Autism Quote by Darold Treffert

“The word “autism” still conveys a fixed and dreadful meaning to most people—they visualize a child mute, rocking, screaming, inaccessible, cut off from human…

— Temple Grandin

I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.

— Temple Grandin

Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension…

— John Donvan

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case…

— Claire Danes

There are disagreements over whether autism is something that should be always and all the time embraced and celebrated as just a different way…

— John Donvan

Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you…

— Temple Grandin

When I first started in this field there were all kinds of stereotypes about autism, as if these were children from another planet, or…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

What makes autism different is the history of neglect into the disorder. It's remained such a mystery that science has been very slow to…

— Elizabeth Emken

The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think…

— Darold Treffert

The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where…

— Temple Grandin

Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its…

— Harvey V. Fineberg

Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.

— John Donvan