Quotes About Asperger Syndrome

#1. He lost his sight and found a vision. He proved dramatically that it's not what happens to us that determines out lives - it's what we make of what happens.

Ken Robinson

#2. Girls are generally recognized as superior mimics. Those with [Asperger's Syndrome] hold back and observe until they learn the 'rules', then imitate their way through social situations.

Tony Attwood

#3. Being something for someone else is a perfectly good waste of a life, isn't it?

Camille Pagan

#4. The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

Jodi Picoult

#5. I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

Gary Numan

#6. I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

Donald Glover

#7. Relationship Principle 10
You can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he doesn't respect your opinion, he won't respect you.

Sherry Argov

#8. From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.

Tony Attwood

#9. I have Asperger's Syndrome. I am an Aspergirl, I am a mom, I am a wife, and I am an individual who sees things in a unique way. I am just like you, only different because I am me.

Jeannie Davide-Rivera

#10. I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.

Tony Attwood

#11. Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.

Tony Attwood

#12. Incapable of emotion - high-functioning Asperger's Syndrome with areas of prodigious savant skills.

J.A. Huss

#13. Ideas ... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.
(Attributed to Mike Jones)

Steven Levy

#14. 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

#15. So is there a cure?' I asked.
'It's not a disease,' he explained. 'It doesn't need curing. It's just how you are

John Elder Robison

#16. I know of several children and adults (with Asperger's Syndrome) who have reported a considerable reduction in visual sensitivity and sensory overload when wearing Irlen lenses.

Tony Attwood

#17. And when anybody is interested in himself quite simply and directly the way Willie is interested in Willie you call it genius. It's

Robert Penn Warren

#18. Social awkwardness is not a crime.

Idir Aitsahalia

#19. I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

Gary Numan

#20. I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.

Peter Tork

#21. 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

#22. All of the features that characterize Asperger syndrome can be found in varying degrees in the normal population

Lorna Wing

#23. We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

#24. How very scared I was of everything, and in the end how very scared I was of her. This woman I knew, and did not know, and loved.

James Christie

#25. Asperger's syndrome is associated with organization, focus, innovative thinking, and rational detachment.

Graeme Simsion

#26. Being alone can be a very effective way of calming down and is also enjoyable, especially if engaged in a special interest, one of the greatest pleasures in life for someone with Asperger's syndrome.

Tony Attwood

#27. Overstimulated. Light, sound, touch, all had been amped up. He closed his eyes to shut out the excess information and tried to get his senses to slow down.

Carol Shay Hornung

#28. It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.

Walter Isaacson

#29. Most adults with Asperger's syndrome don't know they have it.

Graeme Simsion

#30. Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.

William Shakespeare