Quotes About Asperger's Syndrome

#1. 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

#2. You realise you're going to owe me dinner after this, right?"
"How does McDonald's sound?"
"Inadequate.

Sarah Mayberry

#3. Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

Isaac Barrow

#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. We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find that the serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books.

Christopher Hitchens

#8. My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.

Jung Chang

#9. I didn't remember much partisan division in Kansas when I was growing up. People here had been more mainstream then. A strong current of practical common sense and reasonableness had run through both Ward's and my childhoods. We recognized it in each other.

Julene Bair

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

Tony Attwood

#11. 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

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

Tony Attwood

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

Tony Attwood

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

J.A. Huss

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#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. 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

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

Lorna Wing

#22. Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be without it? I don't know anyone who'd get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex. Have you ever gone a week without a rationalization?

Jeff Goldblum

#23. It is probably safe to say that in strongly hierarchical societies the only people to whom something approaching nationalist sentiments can be attributed in pre-modern times is the ruling elite, and then only at times.

Patricia Crone

#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. I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.

Mignon McLaughlin

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Graeme Simsion

#30. And, when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

John Milton