Top 76 Quotes About Aspergers
#1. I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.
Gary Numan
#2. I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.
James Durbin
#3. From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.
Temple Grandin
#4. I have an aspergers diagnosis and I don't give a shit what you people think. My friends are on the internet.
Tina J. Richardson
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Contact.
When someone touches me wrong it isn't a feeling. It isn't hate or fear or pain. It is just blackness and a chant in me: get/out/get/out/get/out.
Jael McHenry
#8. There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.
Solange Nicole
#11. Protecting myself from the influx of painful stimuli, just give me space and I shall be okay.
Tina J. Richardson
#12. I sometimes shock the people around me with how I see things. I come up with very unique solutions to things. As I can picture things in my mind and move them around to design and understand them.
Tina J. Richardson
#13. I take criticism to heart. The words hit me literally and it hurts. It can take me a long time to recover from it.
Tina J. Richardson
#14. We do not naturally care about people we don't know ... If we tried to feel sorry for every death, our little hearts would explode ... I don't have any physical reaction to the news. And there's no reason I should. I don't know them and the news has no effect on my life.
John Elder Robison
#15. I'm going to speak to professor Madoc about this."
"OK," said Patrick. Mick seemed disappointed that he wasn't more worried by the prospect.
"All right, you can get out now."
"OK," said Patrick and didn't go.
Belinda Bauer
#16. I find myself, wearing a mask, pretend play acting when I go out, it's the only way I can cope with it, then when I'm home I'm exhausted and stressed from trying to be someone I'm not. I over analyze the conversations I had, thinking about what I have said and done.
Tina J. Richardson
#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
#19. She enjoyed dark things, it was how she felt. People had pushed her there. She now enjoyed the quiet. She craves the night, the darkness where she is safe.
Tina J. Richardson
#20. Before my diagnosis.
I used to be a collection of other people.
An Actress,
Now I'm finding out who I actually am.
It's been a journey, but I have made it.
Tina J. Richardson
#21. 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
#23. Traveling in other countries is especially fun because others often attribute your differences to the less-stigmatizing idea that you're like this only because you're a foreigner.
Michael John Carley
#24. Words do hurt. They eat into my being and don't leave. They are always there just waiting to pop back up in my mind like it happened yesterday
Tina J. Richardson
#25. Some things just feel so intense. I'm not
over reacting. My sensory processing
is unique to me.
Tina J. Richardson
#26. Can you tell me what it means to waive your rights?
I hold my breath as Jacob hesitates. And then slowly, beautifully, the right fist he's been banging against the wooden railing unfurls and is raised over his head, moving back and forth like a metronome.
Jodi Picoult
#27. Like if you're Jewish you have to wear a hat, but only in the middle of your head. But it all becomes clear the second that you realize that God is a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's.
Eugene Mirman
#28. And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don'treally understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.
John Elder Robison
#29. Sometimes I think I want to run away and disappear but what I really want is to be understood.
Tina J. Richardson
#30. He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.
Orson Scott Card
#31. I'm an autistic girl. I have many years to grow. I'm going to rock my life. Just watch me shine
Tina J. Richardson
#32. I may look like I'm not listening but trust me I'm memorising everything .
Tina J. Richardson
#33. You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.
Jodi Picoult
#34. If people could see my soul without judgement. See my image as a mirror, viewing my uniqueness as the gift it truly is.
Tina J. Richardson
#35. Not everyone will understand me. That's okay. I barely understand myself.
Tina J. Richardson
#36. I have learned to accept the fact that I will make mistakes at nearly every turn, but that those mistakes can be softened if I am honest about who I am to my girls.
Liane Holliday Willey
#38. I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.
Jodi Picoult
#39. I need time where it is quiet, the world is loud enough even when no one is talking. Please respect that it's something that I must do, I don't mean to disrespect you
Tina J. Richardson
#40. Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
T.K. Thorne
#41. I'm always on guard around most people. They do not realize how exhausting that is to keep up. That is why afterwards I really need my space.
Tina J. Richardson
#42. She enjoyed her own company most of the time. She rarely felt the need to be around people.
Tina J. Richardson
#43. 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
#44. I'm okay with who I am.You might not understand me. That's okay as I don't understand you.We can still be friends, we just have to accept our differences.
Tina J. Richardson
#45. I guard my existence, sheltered by distance. Hidden and masked I parade, everyone oblivious to the grand charade.
Tina J. Richardson
#47. Autism is what makes me, me. You can't 'cure' Autism out of me. It's intertwined into how I perceive the world
Tina J. Richardson
#49. 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
#50. Your social rules suck, if i wanted to start a conversation on the relevance of solar vs wind energy I will!
Tina J. Richardson
#51. I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.
Jim Shaw
#54. What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool?
You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.
Temple Grandin
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. She became an illusion of herself. It was easier to cope with people that way
Tina J. Richardson
#58. Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.
Jim Shaw
#59. She kept her feelings close. Filling her up inside. Days passed. Then without warning they expelled from her, washing the pain, hurt and anguish of unresolved thoughts and emotions over her being. As if being struck by lightning.
Tina J. Richardson
#60. Please don't obsess on the number of friends i have or don't have. I'll find my own way, it will be right for me.
Tina J. Richardson
#61. I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.
Tony Attwood
#62. I wonder if the World would feel differently about me if they could see how life feels viewing it like I do, through my eyes.
Tina J. Richardson
#63. If you can still wipe your own backside then life's not that bad!
E.J. Plows
#64. Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".
Hans Asperger
#65. I'm not a hero for living autistic. I'm a person just like you. Just living my life.
Tina J. Richardson
#67. No, no. I trust your judgement. Implicitly. You're just wrong.
Hy Conrad
#68. Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.
Tony Attwood
#70. Everyday feels the same and yet I crave sameness.
Part of me wants to run away and be free.
I feel trapped in my life I've created to protect myself.
Tina J. Richardson
#71. Jacob looks like a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower.
Jodi Picoult
#72. We fell in love instantly, sparks flew. It was like we had met before.
We had trouble understanding each other over the years. But our love has grown stronger through accepting ourselves and each other.
Tina J. Richardson
#73. On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.
Jodi Picoult
#74. If you don't know how to deal with emotion, other people's feelings can hit you like a drug.
Jael McHenry
#75. Years of people pushing and demanding that she conform left a scar on her soul that kept her own self from emerging
Tina J. Richardson
#76. At times i am so focused like i have been taken over by a remote controlled computer, although not user friendly.
Tina J. Richardson
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