Autism Quote by Stuart Duncan

Relatively many autists are first-born children. There is also a pretty widespread conviction that the parents of autists are somehow different - for instance,…

— Nikolaas Tinbergen

I don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a real job.

— Temple Grandin

It's not just the child that has autism. It's the whole family that has autism. It's not a one person thing,

— Ted Lindsay

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

Autistic children are very difficult to take care of, especially severely autistic ones. When I was 4, I had almost no language; when I…

— Temple Grandin

The use of the gerneic second person when one is clearly referring to oneself is quite possibly my biggest language pet peeve. Examples I've…

— Abdalla

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose…

— Bayard Taylor

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

Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all the way…

— Temple Grandin

“But the numbers of people who call themselves autistic can be advantageous to autistic advocacy organizations when they try to present autistics as a…

— Thomas D. Taylor

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

— Christopher Walken

A lot of my close friends call me autistic.

— Tom Rosenthal