Autistic People Quotes

#1. Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

Andrew Solomon

#2. 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

#3. It's time to cure society, not autistic people.

Tina J. Richardson

#4. Autistic people view the world in a different light, in ways many could never imagine.

Tina J. Richardson

#5. Why do non autistic people have interests/hobbies. But, autistic people have obsessions?

Tina J. Richardson

#6. Many autistic people have this ability to learn weird foreign languages, and I think I've heard of autistic Americans who have been obsessed [with] Icelandic and learned it and speak it fluently, and I've seen it done in interviews on television.

Jon Gnarr

#7. Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

Claire Danes

#8. Striking up conversations with strangers is something like extreme sports for autistic people.

Kamran Nazeer

#9. We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well, perhaps better than anyone else could, and we are talking of people who as children had the greatest difficulties and caused untold worries to their care-givers.

Hans Asperger

#10. I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.

Temple Grandin

#11. My girlfriend's family think I'm shy. Or slightly autistic (she told me one night). I'm not. I just don't like some people. These are some of those people.

Sean Mackaay

#12. Art was creating something new, not mimicking something already in existence. What

Jeff Lindsay

#13. People ask what the hardest thing is about having an autistic child, and for me the answer is easy. What mom doesn't want to hear her baby tell her that he loves her or to feel his arms around her?

Kristine Barnett

#14. I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

Samuel Johnson

#15. Greed has two teachers; one is a cheat [a crafty person] and the other one is financial loss. When one incurs loss; it will quickly destroy the tuber of greed.

Dada Bhagwan

#16. You'd be surprised
just how many people
are autistic. Stop the stereotypes.

Tina J. Richardson

#17. The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign themselves to the difficulties or the doltishness of fate; they hope: hope is a slave's virtue.

Emil Cioran

#18. 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 to have attention to it, unless that person is feeling uncomfortable in the world or they need extra help or something.

Jasika Nicole

#19. I don't particularly like explaining being autistic to bewildered people. I might as well say I'm an alien as they probably would understand and accept that more.

Tina J. Richardson

#20. I wish people would see us as people first, I really dislike it when people just see 'Autism' with me and thats all i hear all the time. I'm autistic, yes. But think of me as a person always, a human like you.

Tina J. Richardson

#21. I loosen my grip and take a tasteless bite. I don't like bananas much - they're so mealy - but they're a safe fruit to eat, always cleanly wrapped in their own packages. As I chew, I crane my neck to check out the people around us.

Corinne Duyvis

#22. As an autistic, I have thoughts and ideas of my own. Not all people on the spectrum think the same.

Tina J. Richardson

#23. Some people may say he's autistic," I said. "Others may say he's an angel," Liv said. I nodded. "That too."

Natasha Boyd

#24. I sometimes think that I might be slightly autistic. There might be a syndrome that hasn't been named. I don't seem to see the world in the same way that most people I know see it. They don't seem to be baffled by it.

John Banville

#25. When you see an object, it seems that you see it as an entire thing first, and only afterwards do its details follow on. But for people with autism, the details jump straight out at us first of all, and then only gradually, detail by detail, does the whole image float up into focus.

Naoki Higashida

#26. 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

#27. People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.

Oliver Sacks

#28. I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.

Kool Keith

#29. Do not fear people with Autism, embrace them, Do not spite people with Autism unite them, Do not deny people with Autism accept them for then their abilities will shine

Paul Isaacs

#30. Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. - Richard Von Krafft

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#31. Treat your family like guests and your guests like family.

Judy Baer

#32. Excuse me for a moment, will ye. I think I have to talk to the river,' he said unsteadily and flopped over the side-rail.

Ian Livingstone

#33. Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.

Naoki Higashida

#34. People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.

Temple Grandin

#35. I don't know of any neuropsychiatric disorder other than an infection that has been cured. But the goal is to improve the quality of life of people who experience autistic symptomology and I just think we will make progress on that.

Gerald Fischbach

#36. Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism.

Temple Grandin

#37. Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.

Charles Colson