Children With Autism Quotes

#1. I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

Fred Melamed

#2. 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

#3. The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism)

Temple Grandin

#4. We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful resources and symbols that make sense. If a picture does not explain visually, it is pointless and the child will stop looking to the pictures for information.

Adele Devine

#5. Children with autism are colourful - they are often very beautiful and, like the rainbow, they stand out.

Adele Devine

#6. In 1997, cognitive psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen found that the fathers and grandfathers of children with autism were more likely to be engineers.

Steve Silberman

#7. 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

#8. Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.

Clay Aiken

#9. When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan.

Adele Devine

#10. Having two children with autism, it makes you really think about how we do relate to each other.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

#11. If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

Jenny McCarthy

#12. Children with Autism aren't missing. Instead, they are off making discoveries

Jacob Barnett

#13. 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

#14. If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child.

Stuart Duncan

#15. Ordinarily, small children learn much about emotions by looking at the other person's eyes, while those with autism avoid the eyes and so fail to get those lessons.

Daniel Goleman

#16. It is not all that common, but there is a phenomenon where autism could get worse at about age two. There are some controversies whether regression is a prominent part of autism, but many people feel that it's very hard to diagnose autism before you can begin really talking in detail with a child.

Gerald Fischbach

#17. Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

Andrew Solomon

#18. All my life, I have been working with children whose lives were destroyed because their mothers hated them.
1981 re: cause of autism

Bruno Bettelheim

#19. Everybody else possessed the key to popularity and happiness, and his clumsy attempts to find his own key always ended with other children looking at him funny, or calling him names.

Belinda Bauer

#20. 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

#21. I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.

Ban Ki-moon

#22. By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.

Ban Ki-moon

#23. Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.

Adele Devine

#24. Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.

Ban Ki-moon

#25. Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time.

Stuart Duncan

#26. Children with special needs inspire a special love.

Sarah Palin

#27. In fact, many children come to autism clinics early on with GI/bowel disturbances.

Gerald Fischbach

#28. Today, with tears in my eyes, I telephoned the mother of one of our children (aged thirteen) who had spoken for the first time since the age of three...

Michael Braccia

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

Elizabeth Moon

#30. 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

#31. 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