Mental disorder Quote by Thomas D. Taylor

“An additional problem occurs when people may infer they have synesthesia when they really do not, or they may pretend to have it when…

— Thomas D. Taylor

If you have high-functioning autism, you may well have a lot of autistic traits but if you've got a particular lifestyle where it's possibly…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

— Temple Grandin

“Hypersensitivities occur when sensitivities are strongly heightened, many times uncomfortably so. Hypo-sensitivities occur when there is a lesser reaction to a sensation than one…

— Thomas D. Taylor

“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

“In reality, if they are autistic, they may either identified as:   ◦         High-functioning, or ◦         Low-functioning   by their physicians. But diagnosed autistics,…

— Thomas D. Taylor

“Be that as it may, some of those that would no longer be diagnosed “autistic” today were diagnosed on the autism spectrum and accepted…

— Thomas D. Taylor

“Alternatively, diagnosed autistics, self-diagnosed people, people in the process of getting a diagnosis, people seeking a diagnosis, wannabees, or misdiagnosed individuals will sometimes call…

— Thomas D. Taylor

“some fortunate patients could enter the OO (or Optimal Outcome) group whose members no longer showed any of the symptoms of autistic disorder,”

— Salman Rushdie

The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.

— Temple Grandin

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

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