Autism Parenting Quotes

#1. Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams.

Dr. Linda Barboa

#2. How else could you explain a sapient species that had overpopulated itself to the point of environmental collapse? This was a people that had coupled themselves stupid.

Becky Chambers

#3. As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. I am not ride-or-die. Those are some pretty limiting choices: So if I'm not riding, I gotta die? Can I get off and take the bus? Is "Let's talk about it" an option? What about "ride, or pause this if we need to"? There

Luvvie Ajayi

#5. I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life.

Otto Frank

#6. The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence ...

Jane Bennett

#7. If it hadn't been for Bill Macdonald's book 'The True Intrepid,' I might never have found out about the women who went down to work in secret in New York for our own spymaster Sir William Stephenson in the Second World War.

Susanna Kearsley

#8. Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. You have a healthy baby boy! The words ring like church bells in the ears of new parents.

Dr. Linda Barboa

#10. One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.

Diane Sawyer

#11. It's not reality that makes people happy; good thoughts make people happy.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Can you accept me, can you love me? Without conditions ? Can you nurture me, can you respect me? Without conditions ? Will you embrace me as my own unique autistic self?

Tina J. Richardson

#13. 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

#14. Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number of instances that these views rest on false assumptions and unreal, artificial schemes of historical development. This is a real contribution and not to be minimized.'

Millar Burrows

#15. Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.

Mike Greenberg

#16. I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.

Sylvia Plath

#17. 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

#18. I always said I acted like a twelve-year old, so I decided to write like a twelve-year old.

Terri Bertha

#19. Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- Bell Hooks

Win Quier

#20. We cannot explain the choices that history makes, but we can say something very important about them: history's choices are not made for the benefit of humans.

Yuval Noah Harari

#21. What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

Elizabeth Moon

#22. This was another fossil of a joke. I couldn't remember where it'd come from, I had a horrible feeling it might have been me.

Alexis Hall

#23. Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not.

Liz Becker