Top 100 Autism Is Quotes
#2. Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.
John Donvan
#3. Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not.
Liz Becker
#4. I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.
Temple Grandin
#5. Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.
Stuart Duncan
#6. My life - autism's an important part of it, but it bothers me when I see kids where autism and their autism is the only thing they think about. I'd rather have them think about, you know, some art work they were gonna do or some science they wanted to do.
Temple Grandin
#7. Autism is what makes me, me. You can't 'cure' Autism out of me. It's intertwined into how I perceive the world
Tina J. Richardson
#10. What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.
Elizabeth Moon
#11. Autism is not a death sentence but a rich fulfilled life sentence so to speak.
Janet Walmsley
#12. Autism is not a choice. Acceptance is. Imagine if the opposite was true.
Stuart Duncan
#13. Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.
Mary Bono
#14. If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.
Temple Grandin
#15. Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others.
Harvey V. Fineberg
#16. I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.
Temple Grandin
#17. Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.
Daniel Tammet
#18. Think of it: a disability is usually defined in terms of what is missing. ... But autism ... is as much about what is abundant as what is missing, an over-expression of the very traits that make our species unique.
Paul Collins
#19. Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.
Rick Rollens
#20. The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.
Jenny McCarthy
#21. Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output.
Stuart Duncan
#23. It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.
Hans Asperger
#24. Autism, is part of my child, it's not everything he is. My child is so much more than a diagnosis.
S.L. Coelho
#25. Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to understand other people's thoughts.
Gerald Fischbach
#26. Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.
Harvey V. Fineberg
#27. What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
Jenny McCarthy
#28. Autism is not something I "have" it's not an add on. This is why I call myself autistic. Not person "with" autism.
Tina J. Richardson
#30. Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.
Temple Grandin
#31. Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't think in a language, and animals don't think in a language. It's sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. It's putting these sensory based memories into categories.
Temple Grandin
#33. Autism does not have a look. Autism cannot be cured by discipline. Autism is not a disease. Autism is a way of being. Autism is a neurological difference. Autism is a unique way of viewing the world.
Tina J. Richardson
#34. There are disagreements over whether autism is something that should be always and all the time embraced and celebrated as just a different way to be human, or whether autism sometimes can be really so debilitating to individuals that you want to do something to change those disabilities in them.
John Donvan
#36. I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal - so we can't know for sure what your "normal" is even like.
Naoki Higashida
#37. When something is "all in your mind," people tend to think that it's willful, that it's something you could control if only you tried harder or if you had been trained differently. I'm hoping that the newfound certainty that autism is in your brain and in your genes will affect public attitudes.
Temple Grandin
#38. A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people.
Adrienne Bailon
#39. prosopagnosia is real.
If I meet you in
a different place than
I usually see you.
I won't recognise you.
I'm not rude, I have
face blindness.
Tina J. Richardson
#40. I think we use a lot of words and labels when trying to describe people: ones with autism, ones without autism. In general, I think that labeling people is a major issue, and people don't understand the power of language.
Nikki Reed
#41. A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?
Liz Becker
#42. Her mind interprets the world differently. She feels and sees things with a unique perspective. This is what makes her so magnificent.
Tina J. Richardson
#43. I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to me.
Anne Nesbet
#44. This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens
#45. people with autism must survive in an outside world where "special needs" is playground slang for "retarded,
Naoki Higashida
#46. I am no longer 'trying to dig up evidence to prove' vaccines cause autism. There is already abundant evidence. This debate is not scientific but is political
David Ayoub
#47. Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body's now a speck, a speck from long before I was born, a speck that is melting into nature herself.
Naoki Higashida
#48. Autistic people are individuals. We are not all maths geniuses, we don't all like trains. I am hopeless with technology and much prefer painting. There is no 'typical Autistic.' But I think we probably all like being respected and validated
Jeanette Purkis
#49. It's hard to forget hurtful things, isn't it? Children with autism have good memories. So it's much harder for them to forget bad experiences than it is for us. So fill them with as many good experiences as possible.
Keiko Tobe
#50. We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers. We have also learned that the parents have been our best investigators in looking for both causes of autism and for treatments.
Dan Burton
#51. Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'
Temple Grandin
#52. What is important is to treat everyone like an individual and learning not to generalize autism. With autism, people make assumptions, but it's very broad, and everyone's so different. You have to treat each person as an individual.
Nikki Reed
#53. If you compare the number of children who are diagnosed as autistic64 to the frequency with which the term autism has been used in American newspapers,65 you'll find that there is an almost perfect one-to-one correspondence (figure 7-4), with both having increased markedly in recent years.
Nate Silver
#54. The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music.
Doug Flutie
#55. 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 feel like that combination, in my child's case, is what resulted in autism.
Holly Robinson Peete
#56. These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.
Temple Grandin
#57. One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.
Daphne Zuniga
#58. Do not tell me what i should identify as. That is my choice not yours.
Tina J. Richardson
#59. The more the "Autism World" is invested in politics it will continue to implode and more voices will be lost as a result
Paul Isaacs
#60. Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.
Jenny McCarthy
#61. Education is that component which brings in a meaningful relationship between the happenings around us and how our senses experience them.
Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
#62. I don't think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple's courage and her resourcefulness.. She is really pioneering in both the world of autism and animal rights. She has encouraged an incredibly positive change in the world.
Claire Danes
#63. Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.
Paul Collins
#64. It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.
Temple Grandin
#65. I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.
Temple Grandin
#66. I strongly believe as a mother, as does my husband, that there are certain contributing factors that lead to autism and some of it is very much the chemicals in our environment and in our food,
Kelly Preston
#67. I'll always be there for you.
I promise to protect and nurture you.
Hopefully one day soon, true Autism acceptance will be
something that just is.
Tina J. Richardson
#68. There is a lot of fuss about whether or not Asperger's is on the autism spectrum, but to be honest, it doesn't matter. It's a term we use to get Jacob the accommodations he needs in school, not a label to explain who he is
Jodi Picoult
#69. We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services.
Jenny McCarthy
#70. Being autistic is not everything about me. Try not to define me by my diagnosis.
Tina J. Richardson
#71. I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why the planets spin.
Jerry Newport
#72. I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.
Jet Li
#73. Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.
Claire Danes
#74. The branches are a storm around me, and I fall into a deep well of green. The needles and limbs rush past. It is a whirling motion of green and brown branches.
Ned Hayes
#75. One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.
Temple Grandin
#78. Perception of intention and emotion is irresistible; only people afflicted by autism do not experience it.
Daniel Kahneman
#80. Understanding the intricacies involved in raising someone with a physical or mental challenge for those who have never experienced it is like trying to understand anything foreign; impossible, though definitely worth doing anyway.
Lynette Louise
#81. If people treat you badly for being different it says so much more about what is lacking in them than what is lacking in you.
Jeanette Purkis
#82. Autistic reality is of much value as non-Autistic reality
Jeanette Purkis
#83. What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs.
Thomas R. Insel
#84. One of the places where research is needed is all the sensory problems. And you get sensory problems not just with autism, but with dyslexia, learning problems, ADHD, attention deficit, you know, things like sound sensitivity, problems with fluorescent lighting.
Temple Grandin
#85. Even the word "disorder" is a trigger word for some, myself included. Today, I prefer to write and say, "I am autistic," or "I am Aspie," when referring to myself, versus "a person with autism/Aspergers." Primarily because I don't have Aspergers - rather, I am Aspie.
Samantha Craft
#86. Thinking differently means you can work out problems in an unusual way. Just because we may do things differently it does not mean it is wrong.
Tina J. Richardson
#87. I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.
Temple Grandin
#90. Sometimes all a parent needs is to know the impossible is actually possible. Hope goes a long way when it comes to autism. Matt gives people hope.
Liz Becker
#91. Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
Jenny McCarthy
#92. Not Speaking has no reflection on what is being thought on the inside, being a non-verbal person with Autism in my early years I've come to value words, they shouldn't be wasted nor abused they should be cherished used positively and productively.
Paul Isaacs
#93. But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.
Melanie Bennett
#94. A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown.
Jeffrey Kluger
#95. Many people think trees grow so big from soil and water, but this is not true. Trees get their mass from the air. They gobble up airborne carbon dioxide and perform an act of chemical fission by using the energy from sunshine ... Essentially, trees are made of air and sunshine.
Ned Hayes
#96. I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.
Gary Numan
#97. The conclusion is that both emotional poverty and an aversion to company are not symptoms of autism but consequences of autism, its harsh lockdown on self-expression and society's near-pristine ignorance about what's happening inside autistic heads.
Naoki Higashida
#98. William Stillman's Autism and the God Connection is a sensitive and illuminating work which could dramatically change how we view autism.
Carol Bowman
#99. My Advice is: You always have to keep persevering.
Temple Grandin
#100. Sometimes i feel upset but don't have the word to explain what really is wrong. Because most of the time I'm not sure what is actually wrong. I have trouble recognizing my emotions and feelings.
Tina J. Richardson
