Autism Quote by Darold Treffert

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

— John Donvan

I do clearly have quite a lot of the behavioural traits that people who are diagnosed as autistic do have. But it's a question…

— Tom Rosenthal

I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism", and then…

— Darold Treffert

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

— Temple Grandin

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

Autism is part of who I am.

— Temple Grandin

The position of Autism Speaks has been for quite awhile that we need to find out what's happening. We know there's a genetic component,…

— Elizabeth Emken

I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space…

— 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

Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests that many…

— Morton Ann Gernsbacher

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

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

— Temple Grandin