Quotes About Support

The best thing a parent of a newly diagnosed child can do is to watch their child without preconceived notions and judgements and learn how the child functions, acts, and reacts to his or her world.

To summarize this chapter, parents and teachers need to "stretch" individuals on the autism spectrum. They need to be stretched just outside their comfort zone for them to develop.

The younger the subject, the earlier the possibility of intervention. The earlier the intervention, the greater the potential effect on the trajectory of an autistic person's life.

At the age of three, Tito Mukhopadhyay was diagnosed with severe autism, but his mother, Soma, refused to accept the conventional wisdom of the time that her son would be unable to interact with the outside world. She read to him, taught him to write in English, and challenged him to write his own stories.

It's not really helpful to diagnose a teenager with autism, because we already know it." The younger the subject, the earlier the possibility of intervention. The earlier the intervention, the greater the potential effect on the trajectory of an autistic person's life.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?

Margaret: Oh you weak people, you weak, beautiful people! - who give up. What you want is someone to [she turns out the rose-silk lamp] take hold of you. Gently, gently, with love! And I do love you, Brick, I do! Brick [smiling with charming sadness]: Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?

Yes, well, I do have four brothers. A better education I cannot imagine." - Daphne Bridgerton

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Life may not be fair, but when you have someone to believe in, life can be managed, and sometimes, even miraculous.

As we paint each other's nails Cinnamon Vixen, I consider telling her how bad things are at home. After she and Dan and Laura left for college, everything got worse. Mother's mood swings, Dad's violence, the name-calling at school.

Life has taught you many things, and the people close to you want you to have a good future, but it isn't their future in the end....its your choice you pick the path and lead the way. All your family will do is follow you while you are on that path and support you when you find the light at the end of your road.

Don't be afraid or embarrassed to reach out to God the Comforter if you feel the urge. You can always go back to being an agnostic after Emil is well. I won't tell on you.

I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.

To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.

Never does love's compassionate eye turn from us.

Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture them.

Our love is our burden.

you have never made me ashamed of it " ------- replay: that is because in my eyes you were always above that.

What provided that light for me—when I sank very low and came close to giving up—was love.

Just make sure you ask for help when you need it and say yes when people offer. Like if a neighbor offers to mow your lawn, they want you to say yes. It makes them feel good to know they're helping somehow. It's just as much for them as it is for you. Let them help." "I'm