Family Quote by John Elder Robison

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

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

— John Donvan

“Many kids who would have been called eccentric, different, were suddenly labeled autistic.” I”

— Jon Ronson

“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

“Sonnet on The Spectrum (Diary of An Autistic Neuroscientist) We, on the spectrum, are often misconstrued as rude or audacious. Problem is not that…

— Abhijit Naskar

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

A lot of my close friends call me autistic.

— Tom Rosenthal

Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are…

— Temple Grandin

By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become…

— Temple Grandin

I was nonverbal until I was four years old. Back in the 50s, I was the kind of kid they used to just put…

— Temple Grandin

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

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