Person With Autism Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

Nicholas Sparks

#4. If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.

Stephen Shore

#5. 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

#6. If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.

Temple Grandin

#7. One of the hardest things for a person with autism to do is believe in themselves. But autistics have every right to be as proud as anyone.

Stuart Duncan

#8. Remember a person with Autism isn't a set of symptoms or statistics always remember and remind them that they're a person first.

Paul Isaacs

#9. 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

#10. The person who said 'time heals all wounds' never met an aspie

Tina J. Richardson

#11. It is my own personal opinion that for someone to state that an autistic person 'lacks empathy' is to declare ignorance of the reality of autism.

Liz Becker

#12. There's a saying within the Asperger community: if you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome, you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome ... Within this condition, beneath this label, the variety of personality, of humor, of behavior, is infinite.

Hugh Dancy

#13. 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

#14. I am fine as an autistic person, value me as I am. Don't look at me as a broken neurotypical.

Tina J. Richardson

#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. no one can know how another person 'senses' the world. We just have to respect the person as they are. Accept their unique way of being. Embrace them for who they are not what you think they should be.

Tina J. Richardson

#17. The Tragedy isn't Autism - The Tragedy is the lack of understanding of Autism, Lack of resources, Interventions not being met with the person in mind and Assumptions being made about the person.

Paul Isaacs

#18. Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

Adrienne Bailon

#19. You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

Claire Danes

#20. Before being a mental state of the schizophrenic who has made himself into an artificial person through autism, schizophrenia is the process of the production of desire and desiring-machines.

Gilles Deleuze

#21. He drew some relief from knowing that she was happy doing whatever the hell it was she did. Sometimes it seemed to him she was the only happy person he knew, and that frightened him so badly it made him want to curl up and die.

Arlene Hunt

#22. But the Beast was a good person ... the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.

Karen Kingsbury

#23. I'm not a neurotypical person with an autism add on. I am autistic.

Tina J. Richardson

#24. It's not just the child that has autism. It's the whole family that has autism. It's not a one person thing,

Ted Lindsay

#25. 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

#26. I'm not a hero for living autistic. I'm a person just like you. Just living my life.

Tina J. Richardson

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.

Temple Grandin

#30. 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

#31. You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.

Matthew Dicks