Anxiety Quote by Temple Grandin

The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where…

— Temple Grandin

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'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I…

— Holly Robinson Peete

Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its…

— Harvey V. Fineberg

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

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

I have a fairly strict definition of early infantile autism. That is not to say that people who don't meet that classic description don't…

— Darold Treffert

Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the autism. Autism…

— Jim Sinclair

Everyone recognises that genes are part of the story but autism isn't 100% genetic. Even if you have identical twins who share all their…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests that many…

— Morton Ann Gernsbacher

I think that if I could do any sort of research of autism that I wanted to do, at this point I would take…

— Darold Treffert

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