Best 444 quotes in «autism quotes» category

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Do the best you can and never stop.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

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.

Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

Hugs may come less frequently from someone with autism but when they do, you know it means everything.

I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.

I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

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.

I deliver babies for a living. I have certainly delivered more than 150 children in my lifetime, yet I'm always puzzled when I hear that one of those children I delivered has autism.

I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.

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.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

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.

If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about whether that link exists and not what scientists know, which is that there isn't a link between vaccines and autism. It's a feedback loop that's invisible.

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.

I have a fairly strict definition of early infantile autism. That is not to say that people who don't meet that classic description don't have autism, but we might do well to narrow our definitions, and our samples, down to groups that are very similar, because I think you're more likely to find the cause.

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.

If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.

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

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.

In fact, many children come to autism clinics early on with GI/bowel disturbances.

In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.

In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that is where interactions with the environment are key.

Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.

Im not a doctor or scientist. Im just a mom. But I do think theres a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my childs case, is what resulted in autism.

In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.

In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes.

I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at. Being with people who share your interests makes socializing easier.

I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.

I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism", and then it became "autism", and now it's "autism spectrum disorder". I'm not opposed to that from the standpoint of trying to broaden our vistas, and so forth. But from a research point of view, the term autism is lost in specificity.

It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.

I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.

I think that if I could do any sort of research of autism that I wanted to do, at this point I would take a sample of classic, early infantile autism persons and compare them with what I call "classic late onset autism", individuals. I think we will find that the cause of those youngsters with autism who have autism from birth is probably different than those who have late onset autism.

It's not just the child that has autism. It's the whole family that has autism. It's not a one person thing.

I walk slowly, but never backwards.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

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. But so long as we can learn to love ourselves, I'm not sure how much it matters whether we're normal or autistic.

I volunteered at UCLA's occupational therapy ward, where there are lots of kids with autism and emotional problems. I just wanted to prove to myself that I could not break down and cry at everything, and that I could just help somebody else. The one thing I really remember was that when we would take them out of the hospital for a walk around campus, they would freak out the most when we were waiting for the elevator. I remember the guy at the elevator said to himself, "Transitions are the hardest." And I said to myself, "Transitions are always the hardest.

Katie, 90% of the things you worry about don't happen, and the 10% that do, you can't do anything about.

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

Never underestimate someone with Autism, because there could be Brilliance struggling to get out.

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.