Children Quote by Simon Baron-Cohen

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 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

Back then, people thought if you could talk you didn't have autism. I was just seen as this slightly odd child. I saw another…

— Anne Hegerty

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

— Jason Katims

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

As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a…

— Temple Grandin

I read a lot on autism, which is surprisingly and annoyingly a huge mystery.

— Andrea Suarez Paz

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

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 that people with autism are born outside the regime of civilization. Sure, this is just my own made-up theory, but I think…

— Naoki Higashida

We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well, perhaps better…

— Hans Asperger

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