Top 100 Quotes About Autism
#1. Without a doubt in my mind, I believe that vaccinations triggered Evan's autism.
Jenny McCarthy
#2. encourages them to overlook behavior that needs overlooking. In autism, that's important. Yet
Clara Claiborne Park
#3. Today fraudulent research and corruption are sadly becoming more commonplace. The case of Poul Thorsen, for example, stands out in terms of shameless audacity - stealing grant money meant for autism research.
James Ottar Grundvig
#4. People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.
Jason Katims
#5. Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.
Rick Rollens
#6. A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown.
Jeffrey Kluger
#7. If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.
Jenny McCarthy
#8. The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.
Jenny McCarthy
#9. A lady emailed me that her child had been diagnosed with autism and that hearing my material on the subject had helped her. To me, it just means that I'm making the right decision in talking about this.
Ron Funches
#10. Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output.
Stuart Duncan
#12. Autism was, and would long remain, a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder.
Caren Zucker
#13. 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
#14. Curing autism would be the same as "curing" science and art.
Kristine Barnett
#15. The conclusion is that both emotional poverty and an aversion to company are not symptoms of autism but consequences of autism, its harsh lockdown on self-expression and society's near-pristine ignorance about what's happening inside autistic heads.
Naoki Higashida
#16. When you see an object, it seems that you see it as an entire thing first, and only afterwards do its details follow on. But for people with autism, the details jump straight out at us first of all, and then only gradually, detail by detail, does the whole image float up into focus.
Naoki Higashida
#17. William Stillman's Autism and the God Connection is a sensitive and illuminating work which could dramatically change how we view autism.
Carol Bowman
#18. I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list of struggles. It might be less stressful and at times, easier, to ignore the autism.
Liane Holliday Willey
#19. Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'
Temple Grandin
#20. 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
#21. I more the "Autism World" gets imploded with politics the less voices will be heard.
Paul Isaacs
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. But enough of phenomenology; it is nothing more than the solitary, endless monologue of consciousness, a hard-core autism that no real cat would ever importune.
Muriel Barbery
#25. Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.
John Donvan
#26. It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.
Hans Asperger
#28. Let me see if I can put this in scientific terms: Think of autism like a fart, and vaccines are the finger you pull to make it happen.
Jenny McCarthy
#29. I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of autism, and they make it impossible to operate in the environment where you're supposed to be social.
Temple Grandin
#30. I'm not a neurotypical person with an autism add on. I am autistic.
Tina J. Richardson
#31. Autism, is part of my child, it's not everything he is. My child is so much more than a diagnosis.
S.L. Coelho
#32. A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks.
Michael Greger
#33. 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
#34. The truth can finally be told: Donald Trump's autism was caused by a vaccination that went terribly wrong; this explains why he can't relate to other people.
Michael R. Burch
#35. The truth is, there is no link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines are incredibly important.
Timothy Simons
#36. If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.
Temple Grandin
#37. Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to understand other people's thoughts.
Gerald Fischbach
#38. 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
#39. Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David'd wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long coma, and he'd say, Jeez, Catherine, where have I been?
Cynthia Lord
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.
Stephen Shore
#43. 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
#44. I like what Don Imus has done through the years to help kids with cancer at the Imus Ranch. He has raised awareness about autism. He has done any number of good things.
Steve Capus
#45. Children with autism are colourful - they are often very beautiful and, like the rainbow, they stand out.
Adele Devine
#46. Writing Frank was a little cathartic, since it gave me the chance to climb on my soapbox and expose readers to a side of autism they likely have never knowingly encountered.
Bru Baker
#47. My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet.
Nikki Reed
#48. 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
#50. 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
#51. Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you know, Van Gogh. And at the other end of the spectrum, you got much more severe handicaps where they never learn to speak.
Temple Grandin
#52. I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#54. The emergence of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity is where Autism was back in the 1970's and very few children had the condition. Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity must not be allowed to explode into the new epidemic that Autism has become.
Steven Magee
#55. My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time.
Keith Stanfield
#56. In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity...
No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism.
Eileen Miller
#57. 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
#58. Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.
Temple Grandin
#59. Adapting our own perception, following rather than leading and building bridges are all keys to helping the child with autism learn.
Adele Devine
#60. There has never been a verified scientific report that chelation therapy, a gluten-free diet, or anything else can cure autism.
Michael Specter
#61. This world we live in is confusing, overwhelming and painful because he has a condition known as autism.
Tina Traverse
#62. People with Asperger's or autism expend a huge amount of mental energy each day coping with socializing, anxiety, change, sensory sensitivity, daily living skills and so on.
Laura James
#63. I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
William Gibson
#64. Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to support families and individuals impacted by it.
Adrienne Bailon
#65. In our machine-dominated society of megacities, countless people suffer some degree of what has been termed ecological autism.
Howard John Clinebell
#66. 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
#67. I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.
Jenny McCarthy
#68. Shit, if I can teach you precalc, I can teach anybody. like maybe kids with autism.
John Green
#69. People are also dying from vaccinations. Evan, my son, died in front of me for two minutes. You ask any mother in the autism community if we'll take the flu, the measles, over autism and day of the week. I think they need to wake up and stop hurting our kids.
Jenny McCarthy
#70. 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
#71. The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism)
Temple Grandin
#72. Marissa keeps herself entertained by rating the guys that cruise by. She has her own rating scale: each guy is assigned a letter of the alphabet. But it isn't A to Z order - Marissa must have like a touch of autism or something, because she has this theory that some letters are sexier than others.
Elana K. Arnold
#73. I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?
Jenny McCarthy
#74. People with autism react physically to feelings of happiness and sadness. So when something happens that affects me emotionally, my body seizes up as if struck by lightning.
Naoki Higashida
#75. When something is "all in your mind," people tend to think that it's willful, that it's something you could control if only you tried harder or if you had been trained differently. I'm hoping that the newfound certainty that autism is in your brain and in your genes will affect public attitudes.
Temple Grandin
#76. I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal - so we can't know for sure what your "normal" is even like.
Naoki Higashida
#77. 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
#78. I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.
Temple Grandin
#79. Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccines, instead, prevent disease. Vaccines have wiped out a score of formerly deadly childhood diseases. Vaccine skepticism has helped to bring some of those diseases back from near extinction.
Alex Pareene
#81. It's become horribly and offensively popular to say that someone is on the autism spectrum, so all I'll say is his inability to notice when I was crying had to be some kind of pathology.
Lena Dunham
#82. Sometimes people say that kids with autism aren't capable of love. That's ridiculous. My son loves deeply. He just doesn't communicate well.
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
#83. I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.
Clay Aiken
#84. 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
#85. When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
#86. Will interrupts him. "What do you know about people on the autism spectrum?" Owen
Leta Blake
#87. 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
#88. From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.
Temple Grandin
#89. Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change.
Stuart Duncan
#90. We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are a consequence of that spiritual 'autism.'
Thomas Berry
#92. Autism does not have a look. Autism cannot be cured by discipline. Autism is not a disease. Autism is a way of being. Autism is a neurological difference. Autism is a unique way of viewing the world.
Tina J. Richardson
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.
Jim Beaver
#96. 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
#97. Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.
Jon Krakauer
#98. One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.
Luke Ford
#99. I have a long-standing relationship with Autism Speaks. I've been supporting them for many, many years now.
Nikki Reed
#100. There is a perception that because individuals with autism have challenges in the area of communication and social skills, they are not interested in having friends. This is not so. Adults with autism may be socially isolated, but it is not always indicative of a preference for solitude.
Chantal Sicile-Kira
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