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Quotes About Asperger

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.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
Chaplain Hardy handed him the silver pail and asperger, a wand with a hollow ball at the end.
~ Larry Niven
The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
A diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome can be useful to help a person understand why they have had difficulties.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
Asperger felt that autistic people could have beneficial talents, especially what he called a "particular originality of thought" that was often beautiful and pure, unfiltered by culture or discretion, unafraid to grasp at extremely unconventional ideas. Nearly every autistic person that Sacks observed
~ Michael Finkel