Attention Quote by Gerald Fischbach

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 typically means a person may not be fully aware of the consequences of their actions, or understand the consequences of their behaviour on…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated…

— Gerald Fischbach

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

— John Donvan

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

— Darold Treffert

Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from…

— Daniel Tammet

Many people with autism struggle with reading nonverbal cues and acting on them. When you lose that ability to understand and process nonverbal cues,…

— Rana el Kaliouby

“There is a perception that because individuals with autism have challenges in the area of communication and social skills, they are not interested in…

— Chantal Sicile-Kira

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

“The hardest part of autism is the communication challenge. I feel depressed often by my inability to speak. I talk in my mind, but…

— Ido Kedar

Most people think that it would be hard to be on a set or act for people with autism. But when you think about…

— Brigette Lundy-Paine