Top 100 Autistic Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Many autistic children like to smell things, and smell may provide more reliable information about their surroundings than either vision or hearing.
Temple Grandin
#3. 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
#4. Being autistic does not mean I don't have empathy. Stereotypes are harmful. If anything I hyper feel everything and have to try to shut off to cope.
Tina J. Richardson
#5. In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes.
Temple Grandin
#6. Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not.
Liz Becker
#7. 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
#8. Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.
Andrew Solomon
#9. In the 50s and 60s, kids were taught how to shake hands. They were taught how to have manners. There needs to be a lot more of that kind of stuff because the autistic mind doesn't pick up social things and subtle cues.
Temple Grandin
#11. 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
#12. For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.
Jenny McCarthy
#13. 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
#14. Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices.
Temple Grandin
#15. 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
#16. People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.
Temple Grandin
#17. Vaccination programs were instituted in the late 1930s, and the first handful of autistic babies were noted in the early 1940s. When vaccination programs were expanded after the war, the number of autistic children increased greatly.
Harris L Coulter
#18. 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
#19. Many kids who would have been called eccentric, different, were suddenly labeled autistic." I
Jon Ronson
#20. Being autistic is not everything about me. Try not to define me by my diagnosis.
Tina J. Richardson
#21. My arms sometimes move on their own in big flapping motions, as if I might take off, and my hands spin like a hummingbird's wings.
Ned Hayes
#22. I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.
Andrew Hill
#23. A speech-language pathologist named Michelle Garcia Winner told me that many parents in her practice became aware of their own autistic traits only in the wake of their child's diagnosis.
Steve Silberman
#24. I don't HAVE Autism, I am Autistic. It doesn't mean I see myself as a 'disability' first and a person second. I'm me, you cannot separate 'the Autism' out of me. I'm wired this way. I was born this way. I am this way
Tina J. Richardson
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I fall for centuries of life. First sunlight touches this hillside; and buried inside the earth, a seed stirs, turning slowly in the deep soil like a tadpole turning itself in a dank pool.
Ned Hayes
#29. Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.
Melanie Roach
#30. You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.
Temple Grandin
#31. It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.
Temple Grandin
#32. Being autistic doesn't make me any less human. It just makes me who I am. Just like you are.
Tina J. Richardson
#33. Morgan may be autistic, but he is a normal man with a mental condition, not a mental condition who is a man.
Adrienne Wilder
#34. I saw the Eagle Tree for the first time on the third Monday of the month of March, which I guess could be considered auspicious if I believed in magic or superstition or religion ...
Ned Hayes
#35. My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.
John Travolta
#36. I'm glad Carol Vorderman has left Countdown, I mean it's not like she did much. She was effectively just an autistic shelf-stacker.
Michael McIntyre
#37. Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us.
Warren Ellis
#38. I don't often know where my ideas come from. Maybe it's the fact that I'm obsessively regimented in my analysis, borderline autistic. But whether it's bond selection or asset allocation, we can do it better than just about anybody around.
Jeffrey Gundlach
#39. I'm autistic and most of my children are autistic as well. Please don't tell me how sorry you are for me. I don't need pity. I'm just a mother who has children. Our unique identities and neurology make us who we are. We are perfectly fine just like this, thanks
Tina J. Richardson
#40. Autistic reality is of much value as non-Autistic reality
Jeanette Purkis
#41. The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.
Temple Grandin
#42. 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
#43. I am a whole person. I'm not a neurotypical person with an 'autism' part. I'm not a disabled neurotypical. I am a whole autisic person!.
Tina J. Richardson
#44. I'm not a hero for living autistic. I'm a person just like you. Just living my life.
Tina J. Richardson
#45. Reflecting on my Autism - The processing and communication issues that I have I look at it like this I have had set cards dealt to me and I'm going play them to the best of my abilities.
Paul Isaacs
#46. Autistic children are very difficult to take care of, especially severely autistic ones. When I was 4, I had almost no language; when I was 3, I had none at all.
Temple Grandin
#48. At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.
Jenny McCarthy
#49. My fingers are callused from gripping tree limbs, and my nails are short and grubby with bark. They are like the talons of a bird that lives only in trees.
Ned Hayes
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Of course I don't care if you're bleeding! I'm fucking autistic!
Warren Ellis
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Autistic adults were once autistic kids. We grow up and need acceptance and understanding as well.
Tina J. Richardson
#57. Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really hard for them, but it can happen.
Tisha Campbell-Martin
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. There's no doubt having an autistic child represents tremendous challenges for both the children and their parents, but in my experience, it has brought me closer to my family and has given me an appreciation for how the human brain develops and the uniqueness of each child it afflicts.
Manny Alvarez
#63. I'm not a neurotypical person with an autism add on. I am autistic.
Tina J. Richardson
#64. 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
#65. Why was it considered normal for a girl to live for fashion and makeup, but not car engines or bugs? And what about sports fanatics? My mom had a boyfriend who would flip out if he missed even a minute of a football game. Wouldn't that be what doctors considered autistic behavior?
Tara Kelly
#66. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen,
Dave Eggers
#67. A rising tower of wood and needles and branches and great slabs of bark that has grown for hundreds of years. An impossible castle made from air and sunlight, fixed in place by the power of photosynthesis and chlorophyll. Magic. With lights.
Ned Hayes
#68. It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.
Jenny McCarthy
#69. 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
#70. The Internet may be the best thing yet for improving an autistic person's social life.
Temple Grandin
#71. Striking up conversations with strangers is something like extreme sports for autistic people.
Kamran Nazeer
#72. My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet.
Nikki Reed
#73. If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language' ... you're not putting the person first.
Stuart Duncan
#75. Being autistic makes me hyper sense things in the world.
Music can intensely enter my soul piercing my inner workings like a light pulsing through me. it can be such an amazing experience
Tina J. Richardson
#76. You'd be surprised
just how many people
are autistic. Stop the stereotypes.
Tina J. Richardson
#77. Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.
Claire Danes
#78. 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 know, Van Gogh. And at the other end of the spectrum, you got much more severe handicaps where they never learn to speak.
Temple Grandin
#79. Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.
Allan Snyder
#80. I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.
Clay Aiken
#81. I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.
Temple Grandin
#82. If you just did what you wanted to do, and didn't care what anyone thought, you'd be Autistic.
Seamus McDuff
#83. One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.
Luke Ford
#84. 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
#85. Lord, let me write,
leave me autistic and typing
until my windows bust into a thousand silver doves
and I know the poem is done.
Buddy Wakefield
#86. I understand perfectly why some of my autistic patients scream and flap their arms
it's to frighten off extroverts
Mark Vonnegut
#87. And now there are two distinct phases to sex with Daryl: the first two minutes like an exam from an autistic gynecologist, the next ten a visit from the Roto-Rooter man.
Jess Walter
#88. Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child.
Stuart Duncan
#89. As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.
Temple Grandin
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence.
Hans Asperger
#94. Teachers who work with autistic children need to understand associative thought patterns.
Temple Grandin
#95. I am fine as an autistic person, value me as I am. Don't look at me as a broken neurotypical.
Tina J. Richardson
#96. Why do non autistic people have interests/hobbies. But, autistic people have obsessions?
Tina J. Richardson
#97. The light filtered through the trees, rays of sunlight splitting around the vast trunks, the branches above us fluttering in a faint wind, and the green needles of Douglas Firs shimmering silver underneath in the breeze.
Ned Hayes
#98. The wind is blowing hard around me, the sound is rising in my chest again, and I feel I can fly.And then the branch has shifted under my feet, the deep furrows of the bark have left my back, and I have no time to spread my arms. I am not flying. I am falling.
Ned Hayes
#99. The trees reach up above me toward the sky, stretching out their great limbs in an intricate pattern that reminds me of the pattern of light ... the pattern shifting back and forth as I climb.
Ned Hayes
#100. All my life I've felt different to most. This has caused me anxiety and depression over the years. It took being diagnosed at age 36 to make my life finally make sense. I fit in somewhere now. I feel like I'm not a wrong neurotypical. I'm a complete autistic
Tina J. Richardson
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