Autism Quote by Gerald Fischbach Download Open image “Autism is not a snapshot. It's a life.” — Gerald Fischbach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Autism Life Snapshots
“Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~” — Eileen Miller Copy Share Image
The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers. — Elizabeth Emken Copy Share Image
I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover. — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I think that, as a result of all the killings in the world and the selfish planet-wrecking that humanity has committed, a deep sense of crisis exists. Autism has somehow arisen out of this. Although people with autism look like other people physically, we are in fact very different in many ways. We are more like travelers from the distant,… — Naoki Higashida David Mitchell Copy Share
“The world has a fast-growing problematic disability, which forges bonds in families, causes people to communicate in direct and clear ways, cuts down meaningless… — Patrick Jasper Lee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Though Autism can be frightening and terribly demanding, it also comes with its vast share of superpowers that are unknown to the typical human. — Andrea Suarez Paz Copy Share Image
It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential. — Hans Asperger Copy Share Image
People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up. — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
It is not all that common, but there is a phenomenon where autism could get worse at about age two. There are some controversies… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers makes… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
In fact, many children come to autism clinics early on with GI/bowel disturbances. — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although that extraordinary number is of the same order of magnitude as the number of stars in the Milky Way, it cannot account for the complexity of the brain. The liver probably contains 100 million cells,… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share
In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that is where… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
I don't know of any neuropsychiatric disorder other than an infection that has been cured. But the goal is to improve the quality of… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
There are clear differences between and some- and there may be protective factors in a female brain. — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed. — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
“We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful… — Adele Devine Copy Share Image
In fact, when we as neuro-typical people encounter a person with autism spectrum syndrome who's always been that way it is that we have… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism. — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are visual thinkers like me. Other kids are pattern thinkers - your mathematicians, your programmers. And there are others, they are word thinkers. Uneven skills. You need to take the thing that they're good at and you… — Temple Grandin Copy Share
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.' — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
In the person with autism, the brain may already be seeing the part and be less distracted by the whole, and in the person… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
When you have autism or aspergers, it's so hard to get a social life but trust me, in the end everyone can achieve at… — Lia Copy Share Image
