Quotes About Having A Child With Autism

#1. 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

#2. Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time.

Stuart Duncan

#3. Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.

Adele Devine

#4. As a child she was unique, she was a dreamer, she lived in her own world. Where it was safe.

Tina J. Richardson

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Autism, is part of my child, it's not everything he is. My child is so much more than a diagnosis.

S.L. Coelho

#9. D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin ... and you. I'll be there soon.

Sarah Dessen

#10. 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

#11. A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

Michael Connelly

#12. Adapting our own perception, following rather than leading and building bridges are all keys to helping the child with autism learn.

Adele Devine

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I'll never get to hear her say, 'I love you, Mommy,' like other parents take for granted.

Kelly Moran

#16. Imagine that your child is born with wings.

Carolyn Parkhurst

#17. The future of my child is unknown but I have loved him, supported him, and taught him right from wrong. I will continue to do so ...

Brenda Lochinger

#18. I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

Joseph Mawle

#19. As a child with Autism, I experienced life my own way. I could sense colours/sounds/objects as beams of intense sensations.

Tina J. Richardson

#20. Will struck her, knocking her to the ground and covering her with his body as the automaton blew apart like an exploding star.

Cassandra Clare

#21. There are many things we don't understand, and many ways to unlock the brain and maximize function. Don't ever let anybody tell you it can't be done.

Sally Fryer Dietz

#22. Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams.

Dr. Linda Barboa

#23. Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture.

Judith Butler

#24. The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.

Irwin Redlener

#25. I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.

Jet Li

#26. What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

Elizabeth Moon

#27. You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.

Allison Anders

#28. Wherever the Legionary's hand and soul show up, a garden appears.

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

#29. Know your own child's behaviors and look deeper to find their meaning. Be the expert for your child. Discover the wonderful.

Liz Becker

#30. I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my child's case, is what resulted in autism.

Holly Robinson Peete

#31. Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

Jenny McCarthy

#32. I give the children education.

Jackie Chan

#33. As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.

Deron Williams