Autism Quote by John Donvan Download Open image “Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.” — John Donvan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Autism Behavior Defined Habits Looks
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to understand other… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Certainly not everybody that is different is necessarily autistic, but there are a lot of undiagnosed people, and it's not necessarily something that needs… — Jasika Nicole Copy Share Image
Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output. — Stuart Duncan Copy Share Image
Social interactions can be enormously challenging for people on the spectrum. That's part of the reason that unemployment among autistic adults hovers near 80 percent. — John Donvan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Adults don't get nearly the attention and support the kids do, maybe because they're not as cute or because people forget that autism is… — John Donvan Copy Share Image
I don't sense that people are loving the adults the way they have learned to love kids, because the truth is, they're not going… — John Donvan 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
“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
