Quotes About Autism

People with autism are extremely good at working... in a scripted environment, because that's how they live their lives a lot of the time.

Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices.

It is important to raise Autism Awareness, not only in April, but year round.

Many kids who would have been called eccentric, different, were suddenly labeled autistic." I

If you have a child with autism, and he or she has good intelligence, with no delay in language learning maybe there is an advantage to autism as well? Maybe it gives them a better understanding of mathematics, or science? After all, the essence of science and the essence of autism is to notice patterns that others have not noticed.

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.

Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'

The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.

My biggest challenge is my severely autistic son.

My heart bleeds, goes out for families with kids with autism.

Autism spectrum disorders are linked to other problems: Most of the people we see in our Asperger clinic for adults also suffer from clinical levels of depression.

My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

We need our children in Jamaica - especially those suffering with dyslexia, autism, cerebral palsy - to get more attention.

perception of intention and emotion is irresistible; only people afflicted by autism do not experience it.

The perception of intention and emotion is irresistible; only people afflicted by autism do not experience it.

No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even so, I believe what is truly essential to the success of any relationship is not so much compatibility, but love. When you love someone, virtually anything is possible.

In the person with autism, the brain may already be seeing the part and be less distracted by the whole, and in the person without autism the brain may have to set aside its picture of the whole to analyze the detail.

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

I have a son, and my son has autism. There's certain things that I deal with that a lot of people don't deal with.

I've learned that it comes in so many different shapes and sizes, and that communities with autism are extremely supportive of one another.

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.

It is possible that by studying autism we'll learn about the nature of talent. Supposedly there's no connection between scientific talent and autism, but if we look closely, we find a very basic connection.

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.

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.