Autism Quotes - page 4

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. (Jenny McCarthy)
I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary. View quote
Temple Grandin
I've worked with tons of people that I know who are on the spectrum - but now I think severe autism has really increased. View quote
Temple Grandin
Autism is part of who I am. View quote
Temple Grandin
Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.' View quote
Temple Grandin
If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. View quote
Temple Grandin
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. View quote
Temple Grandin
People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer? View quote
Temple Grandin
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. View quote
Temple Grandin
I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career. View quote
Temple Grandin
There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics. (Temple Grandin)
Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior. View quote
Temple Grandin
Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism. View quote
Temple Grandin
The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous scientists and musicians. And we've got to work on strengths. We also have to work on teaching basic manners and skills. View quote
Temple Grandin
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. View quote
Temple Grandin
I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling. View quote
Temple Grandin
The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism. View quote
Helen Mirren
Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism. View quote
Jon Krakauer
When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate. View quote
Seth Godin
One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing. View quote
Luke Ford
Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder affecting so many around the world. Autism is not mental illness, these children and adults think differently. Albert Einstein they say was autistic. How many in the audience know that there are 38,000 autistic people in Sri Lanka? So we as entertainers, urge you all to ‘speak up for those who cannot speak up for themselves.' Lets spread awareness of autism, particularly when numbers of autistic children are rising and we urge our government to also provide public services – who knows we may even produce Albert Einsteins if we provide education, health, specialist speech therapy for autistic children in our lovely island.... (Desmond de Silva)
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. View quote
Elizabeth Kolbert
I have Asperger's, I'm on the autism spectrum, so I don't really care about social codes. It makes you think differently. View quote
Greta Thunberg
Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses. View quote
John Travolta
Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular. View quote
Claire Danes