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  1. "If y'all've met one person with autism, you've met ane person with autism." – Dr. Stephen Shore.StephenShore_NewYork
  2. "What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would take a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting annihilation washed." – Dr. Temple GrandinTempleGrandin4
  3. "It takes a village to heighten a kid. Information technology takes a child with autism to enhance the consciousness of the hamlet." – Coach Elaine Hall
  4. "And at present I know it is perfectly natural for me non to look at someone when I talk. Those of united states with Asperger's are just non comfortable doing it. In fact, I don't really understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone'south eyeballs." -John Elderberry Robison
  5. "Autism . . . offers a gamble for united states of america to glimpse an awe-filled vision of the world that might otherwise laissez passer u.s.a. by." – Dr. Colin Zimbleman, Ph.D.
  6. "I've listened enough. It's time for me to speak, however it may sound. Through an electronic device, my hands, or my rima oris. At present information technology'southward your time to listen. Are you ready?" – Neal Katz, Self-abet
  7. "The most interesting people you'll find are ones that don't fit into your average cardboard box. They'll make what they need, they'll brand their ain boxes." -Dr. Temple Grandin
  8. "This is a FOREVER journeying with this creative, funny, highly intelligent, ambitious, impulsive, nonsocial, behavioral, ofttimes times loving individual. The nurse said to me afterward 6 hours with him 'He is a gift' INDEED he is." – Janet Frenchette Held, Parent
  9. "Beliefs is communication. Alter the environment and behaviors will change." – Lana David
  10. "I think when one becomes identified with a label that'll get all anyone sees; the expansiveness and breadth of the all of who you are of a sudden subconscious from view. I look to the entire history of the label and how it came to be. Our Western world likes to compartmentalize putting everything into simplistic categories. Now they accept such terms every bit "neurotypical" and "neurodivergent," separating the entire human population on the planet into two categories. I would say that "neurotypical" is a diversity every bit well,." – Kurt Muzikar, Introduction to "Bozo to Bosons" (non yet published)
  11. "For autistic individuals to succeed in this earth, they need to find their strengths and the people that will aid them get to their hopes and dreams. In order to exercise so, ability to make and go along friends is a must. Among those friends, there must be mentors to prove them the mode. A supportive environment where they can learn from their mistakes is what we as a society needs to create for them." – Bill Wong, Autistic Occupational Therapist
  12. "Our wounds and hurts and fears are in our optics. Humans think they build 'walls' for internal privacy. They think eye contact is about honesty simply they mostly lie considering they recollect they can hide their intent. Middle contact is invasive." – Ballad Ann Edscorn
  13. "Although people with autism expect similar other people physically, we are in fact very different . . . We are more like travelers from the afar, afar by. And if, by our beingness here, we could assist the people of the earth remember what truly matters for the World, that might give united states quiet pleasance." – Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Leap
  14. "Negative words carry negative vibration. Positive words bear positive vibration. What do you want your kid to reflect back to you, the label of matted or the label of gifted in a new mode?" – Suzy Miller, Awesomism
  15. "I desire Elijah to know that he is loved simply the fashion he is." – Gee Vero
  16. "What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be expert grades in school, but a dissimilar way of looking at the world and learning."    – Chuck Grassley
  17. "Parents take therapists come in their business firm and tell them what to do. They give their power away. Parents need to focus on healing and empowering themselves. They must shift their beliefs nearly autism. One time the parent knows who they are the kid volition respond." – Lori Shayew.
  18. "Not anybody is perfect. There is always an imperfect side to everyone," – Finn Christie, Age ten, on making Perfect Babies.
  19. "Life is . . . non near counting the losses and the lost expectations, but rather swimming, with as much grace as can be mustered, in the joy of all of information technology." – Leisa Hammett
  20. "For every three years your child is in public school, you tin can look ane infrequent teacher, one mediocre teacher, and ane instructor who makes your life miserable." – Rick Seward, disability advocate for Blastoff Resource Center in Santa Barbara, 2002
  21. "The labeling undermines us in and then many levels! But people don't know, they need to be reminded that nosotros too are God'south children. People don't mean harm because they too are God'southward children. Love heals lots of wounds. Honey is patient, love is kind; my motto in life. Yous are loving. Mom has healed her consciousness to allow me to truly reflect my real identity as God's perfect kid. Just don't allow your senses get you lot fooled, nosotros are more than our bodies. Find the truth so yous tin reflect your existent being." – Nicole (xiii years one-time, not-exact, labeled autistic, typed independently on her iPad)
  22. "Music therapy, equine therapy, and art therapy are all 'therapeutic' considering they are a vibrational friction match. They accept elements to them that your kid can use at his current level of high-vibrational part to make sense of this lower vibrating world." – Suzy Miller, Awesomenism
  23. "End thinking about normal . . . You don't have a big enough imagination for what your child can become." – Johnny Seitz, autistic tightrope artists in the movie Loving Lamposts.
  24. "The style we look at our children and their limitations is precisely the style they volition feel almost themselves. Nosotros set up the examples, and they acquire past taking our cue from us."  – Amalia Starr
  25. "English is my second language. Autism is my first." – Dani Bowman
  26. "Nosotros are the doorway into a New Globe Society that is based on honey and heart. We accept the middle key. Nosotros only need the respect of others to learn how to serve wisely and kindly." – Lyrica, nonverbal, from the book Awetizm
  27. "Rome was not built on the first day. I demand time to build the Eiffel Tower of my life." – Jeremy Sicile-Kira
  28. "Within every living child exists the most precious bud of cocky-identity. To search this out and foster it with loving care; that is the essence of educating an autistic child." – Dr. Kiyo Kitahara
  29. "We contain the shapes of trees and the movement of rivers and stars within us." – Patrick Jasper Lee
  30. "When doctors, parents, teachers, therapists, even television describe typical spectrum kids, without meaning to, they're describing typically male spectrum traits — patterns first noticed by observing boys. But boys. And nosotros aren't boys. So they miss and mislabel us." – Jennifer O'Toole, Asperkids
  31. "Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who practice the things no 1 can imagine." – Alan Turing, creator of the offset calculator used to break codes during WW II.
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  32. "My autism is the reason I'chiliad in college and successful. It's the reason I'm adept in math and science. It'south the reason I care," – Jacob Barnett, 16-year old math and physics prodigy
  33. "Think of it: a disability is usually defined in terms of what is missing . . . Simply autism . . . is as much about what is abundant as what is missing, an over-expression of the very traits that make our species unique." – Paul Collins, Non Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism
  34. "The concept of neurodiversity provides a paradigm shift in how we recall about mental performance. Instead of regarding large portions of the American public as suffering from deficit, disease, or dysfunction in their mental processing, neurodiversity suggests that we instead speak almost differences in cerebral functioning." – Dr. Thomas Armstrong
  35. "My autism makes things polish. Sometimes I recall it is amazing but sometimes it is sad when I want to be the aforementioned and talk the same and I fail. Playing the piano makes me very happy. Playing Beethoven is like your feelings – all of them – exploding." – Mikey Allcock, 16-year old who was non-exact until age ten
  36. "By holding the highest vision for your kid when they can not see it for themselves, y'all are lifting them up, elevating them and helping them to soar." – Megan Koufos
  37. "There is no cure for being human," – Cheri Rauser, mom to Isabell
  38. "I know of nobody who is purely autistic or purely neurotypical. Even God had some autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin."        – Jerry Newport, Your Life is Non a Label
  39. "The good and bad in a person, their potential for success or failure, their aptitudes and deficits – they are mutually conditional, arising from the same source. Our therapeutic goal must be to teach the person how to bear their difficulties. Not to eliminate them for him, but to railroad train the person to cope with special challenges with special strategies; to brand the person aware non that they are sick, just that they are responsible for their lives."  – Hans Asperger
  40. "Autism is really more of a difference to be worked with rather than a monolithic enemy that needs to be slain or destroyed." – Stephen Shore, PhD
  41. "I view 'autistic' as a word for a part of how my brain works, not for a narrow set of behaviors and certainly not for a set of boundaries of a stereotype that I have to stay inside." – Amanda Baggs
  42. "My autism is similar the gustation of tepid saké, different merely interesting." – Sue Rubin
  43. "Like Asperger, I also would sometimes like to claim a dash of autism for myself. A dash of autism is non a bad manner to characterize the credible detachment and unworldliness of the scientist who is obsessed with one seemingly all-important problem and temporarily forgets the time of day, not to mention family and friends." – Uta Frith
  44. "Fifty-fifty for parents of children who are not on the spectrum, at that place is no such thing as a normal child." – Violet Stevens
  45. "Our duty in aut­ism is not to cure but to re­lieve suf­fer­ing and to max­im­ize each per­son's po­10­tial." – John Elder Robison
  46. "Disability doesn't make yous exceptional, only questioning what you think you know nearly it does." – Stella Young
  47. "Being autistic is not about living in a vacuum, sucking in everything around you, living in an existence shutout from your surround. If annihilation, the surroundings becomes more real, more painful, more evident." – Jocelyn Eastman
  48. "Vibrant waves of sequenced patterns emerged in my head whenever I looked at musical notes and scores. Similar pieces of a mysterious puzzle solved, it was natural for me to see music and its many facets as pictures in my caput. Information technology never occurred to me that others couldn't see what I saw." – Dr. Stephen Shore
  49. "Nosotros need to embrace those who are different and the bullies demand to be the ones who get off the motorbus,." Caren Zucker, co-author of "In a Different Primal"
  50. "I don't want my thoughts to die with me, I desire to take washed something. I'1000 non interested in power, or piles of coin. I want to exit something backside. I want to make a positive contribution – to know that my life has significant." – Temple Grandin
  51. "Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg." – Paul Collins
  52. "Don't think that there'due south a different, better kid 'hiding' backside the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and meliorate his weaknesses, the way you would with any child. Yous may have to piece of work harder on some of this, but that'southward the goal." – Claire Scovell LaZebnik
  53. Practice not fearfulness people with Autism, embrace them. Do non spite people with Autism, unite them. Do not deny people with Autism, accept them, for so their abilities will polish." – Paul Isaacs
  54. "I see people with Asperger'due south syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life." – Tony Attwood
  55. "Autism is as much a role of humanity equally is the capacity to dream." – Kathleen Seidel
  56. "I looked up to the stars and wondered which one I was from." – James McCue
  57. "I see everything in color. I take synesthesia, which means that the function of my brain – that controls the senses – sight, hearing, touch, smell and sense of taste – are wired differently."  – Jeremy Sicile-Kira
  58. "Connection is what moves this world forrad. Connection is a profound man experience." – Jenny Palmiotto, The Therapist Shift
  59. "By separating the autism from the person, are we encouraging our patients' family members to beloved an imagined non-autistic child that was never built-in, forgetting nigh the real person who exists in front of us?" – Christina Nicolaidis, A Physician Speaks
  60. "Blue sky may be beautiful just lighting the tall buildings blue is autism-sensation." – Tito Mukhopadhyay
  61. "Autism makes you listen louder. It makes you pay attention on an emotional level as well as an intellectual level." – Jace King, brother to Taylor Cantankerous, Normal People Scare Me Also
  62. "Presume intelligence with all children with autism. Presume all of them are hearing yous." – Lori Shayew, The Gifts of Autism
  63. "Autism is about having a pure middle and beingness very sensitive. Information technology is about finding a fashion to survive in an overwhelming, confusing earth . . . It is near developing differently, in a different footstep and with different leaps." – Trisha Van Berkel
  64. "Until nosotros create a nation that regularly wants to employ a person with autism, assure for a quality didactics for each person with autism, and eliminates the far too many unnecessary obstacles placed in the manner of success for a person with autism, we really won't be as successful as nosotros must. We need to get all in our nation to encompass the belief that each person with autism is valued, respected and held to the highest level of dignity and must be provided every opportunity for the highest quality of life each and every mean solar day." – ASA President Scott BadeschEmma Zurcher-Long Showing Kindness
  65. "Showing kindness towards those who are different and embracing our imperfections equally proof of our humanness is the remedy for fear." – Emma Zurcher-Long of Emma's Hope Book
  66. "Nowhere am I then badly needed equally among a shipload of illogical humans." – Mr.Spock
  67. " . . . I don't need to apologize for Reid every bit much as interpret his behavior for the uninitiated. His actions aren't immoral or wrong; they but become misconstrued or misinterpreted." – Andrea Moriarity, One Runway Mind: 15 Ways to Amplify Your Child's Special Interest
  68. " . . . Autistic people are people: they're non puzzle pieces or baffling enigmas or medical mysteries to be solved, or 'normal' people 'trapped' in the bodies of autistics or any of that crap that infects then many portrayals of autistic people in both the clinical literature and the popular media. At the aforementioned fourth dimension, I think it's equally important to celebrate the differences between autistic people and typical people, and to recognize the need for accommodating autism as a significant disability . . . " Steve Silberman, an Interview with Steve Silberman writer of Neurotribes.
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  70. "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." – Frank Zappa
  71. "The teacher must have to become autistic." – Hans Asperger
  72. "We take to practise away with this nonsense that in that location is a window of opportunity for a person with autism." – Barry Prizant, author Uniquely Human at the 2016 Beloved and Autism Conference
  73. "I believe everyone on the planet has their thing and, peculiarly in my experience, autistic people all have a tremendous souvenir. It's a thing of finding that gift and nurturing it." Edie Brannigan, Female parent to runner, Mikey Brannigan
  74. "Every bit an autistic I tin readily see environmental phenomena of sun particles interacting with moisture in the air and rise up from the ground. I thought of these things I could see every bit sun sparkles and globe tails." – Judy Endow, Painted Words: Aspects of Autism Translated
  75. "When I did stims such every bit dribbling sand through my fingers, it calmed me down. When I stimmed, sounds that hurt my ears stopped. Most kids with autism practise these repetitive behaviors considering it feels good in some style. Information technology may counteract an overwhelming sensory environment . . ."  – Temple Grandin, Autism Asperger's Digest, 2011
  76. "The experience of many of us is not that 'insistence on sameness' jumps out unbidden and unwanted and makes our lives difficult, but that 'insistence on sameness' is actually a way of adapting to a confusing and chaotic environment . . . " Dora Raymaker
  77. "Autism is here to stay and may exist considered a function of the diversity of the man genetic pool." – Dr. Stephen Shore
  78. "As soon as a child is capable of understanding, they volition know they are different. Just equally a diabetic needs insulin, an autistic child needs accommodations . . . The label gave me cognition and self-awareness." – Steve Andrews
  79. "A person with autism hears every audio intensely magnified. Thus, if the tone of voice is harsh or strict, they volition feel scared and threatened and, consequently, may inadvertently scream or even attack. Aggressive behavior is brought on past fright."  – Joao Carlos Costa, 21, non-verbal, autistic
  80. "Therapists and educators take traditionally tried to suppress or modulate a child's special interest, or utilize information technology as a tool for behavior modification: Keep your hands all the same and cease flapping, and you will get to watch a Star Wars clip; complete your homework or no Harry Potter. But what if these obsessions themselves tin be turned into pathways to growth? What if these intellectual cul-de-sacs can open worlds?" – Scientific American commodity talking about the documentary Life, Animated
  81. "To mensurate the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members." – Ban Ki-Moon, Onetime Un Secretary-General
  82. "I demand to see something to acquire it, because spoken words are like steam to me; they evaporate in an instant, earlier I take a take chances to make sense of them. I don't have instant-processing skills. Instructions and information presented to me visually can stay in forepart of me for as long equally I demand, and volition be but the aforementioned when I come back to them later. Without this, I live the constant frustration of knowing that I'm missing large blocks of information and expectations, and am helpless to do annihilation about it." – Ellen Notbohm, 10 Things Every Kid with Autism Wishes You Knew
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  83. "[Then-called] Mild autism doesn't hateful one experiences autism mildly . . . Information technology means YOU experience their autism mildy. You may not know how hard they've had to work to go to the level they are." – Adam Walton
  84. "Are your eyes listening? That's what needs to happen to hear my writing voice. Because of autism, the thief of politeness and friendship, I have no sounding voice. Past typing words I tin play with my life and stretch from my earth to yours. I get a real person when my words try to attain out to you without my weird body scaring you away. Then I am live." – Sarah Stup, Excerpted from "Are your eyes listening? Collected Works" by Sarah Stup
  85. "When a family focuses on power instead of disability, all things are possible . . . Love and credence is fundamental. We need to collaborate with those with autism by taking an interest in their interests." – Amanda Rae Ross
  86. "Art can permeate the very deepest office of us, where no words exist." – Eileen Miller, The Daughter Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art
  87. "Why should I weep for non being an apple, when I was built-in an orange, I'd be crying for an illusion, I may besides cry for not existence a horse."       – Donna Williams
  88. "Just one step in front of each other, each day. In the end, that is all, we're expected to have." – Donna Williams (1963-2017), Footsteps of a Nobody
  89. "The departure between loftier-functioning autism and low-functioning is that loftier-functioning means your deficits are ignored, and low-functioning ways your avails are ignored." – Laura Tisoncik
  90. "Humane storytelling is the way to advance gild's understanding of #Autism as it has the potential to alter people'south hearts and minds."   – Tom Clements
  91. "Let's give people with autism more opportunities to demonstrate what they feel, what they imagine, what comes naturally to them through humour and the linguistic communication of sensory experience. As we acquire more than about autism, let's not forget to larn from those with autism. There are poets walking among you and they accept much to teach." – Chris Martin,  Unrestricted Interest
  92. "Years before doctors informed me of my loftier-functioning autism and the disconnect it causes between person and language, I had to figure out the globe as best I could. I was a misfit. The globe was made upwardly of words. But I thought and felt and sometimes dreamed in a private language of numbers." – Daniel Tammett
  93. "Inside every kid is a connection to one grade or some other and a potential waiting to be fulfilled." – Dr. Stephen Mark Shore
  94. "Truly I dreamt that my beautiful mom told others my secret well-nigh life. Nicely the secret was very easy to say but harder to practise. The secret is: believe in your child and believe in yourself." – Jeremy Sicile-Kira
  95. "I describe my inspiration from people and the world. I see the world total of bold colors, and I am fascinated by our differences that brand us all special and unique human beings. My inspiration also comes from the fact that anybody in the globe has something special to offering, no matter their race, color, religion, or disability. At that place is beauty in everything I see, and my hope is that the world tin see beauty and acceptance through my eyes." – Ronaldo Byrd, who participated in Created on Ipad gallery
  96. "Be thankful for autism. God shines brightest in weakness, and information technology comes with strengths that enable us to fill certain job roles amend than others would (a talent, if you will)." – Peter Lantz
  97. "Depression pitched notes actually brand me experience like love might be truly possible. High pitched notes make me feel like I could go  crazy with pain and sadness. Great rhythms can make me feel like life is liberty." – Jeremy Sicile-Kira
  98. "Rather than healing our child of his developmental disability, God healed me of my spiritual inability." – Diane Dokko
  99. "Since agreement and adaptation ​are outside of our locus of command​,​ nosotros can focus on our own coping mechanisms. This allows u.s. to experience and procedure much more information and see patterns before others." – Joe Biel
  100. "We tin can use Asperger's equally a super ability if we focus." – Daniel Grand. Jones
  101. "Empowering your immature person is the key to giving them the skills they need to live an independent life. If you do things for them that they could larn or even do for themselves past themselves, then you are DISEMPOWERING your immature person." – Tom Iland
  102. "Rigid academic and social expectations could air current up stifling a mind that, while it might struggle to conjugate a verb, could one day take us to distant stars." – Temple Grandin
  103. " . . . when experts speak of social deficits in autism they can neither imagine accompanying benefits nor critically examine their ain neurologies. How most a new slogan? Feel globally. Perceive locally." – Ralph James Savarese, See It Feelingly
  104. "It took a while to recognize my liberty from cultural conditioning as a loftier value benefit that supports my up screw of independent sovereignty." – Steve Staniek
  105. "Using the term "high-functioning" discounts or dismisses the person'due south needs or struggles . . . Using the term "low-functioning" discounts or dismisses a person'south strengths and capabilities." Tom Iland, The Fallacy of High and Low Operation Autism

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  106. "Small-scale talk is our kryptonite. There are few things in this world more disconcerting to my autistic body than loud spaces and small talk – even worse when y'all combine the 2 with fluorescent lights." " Said Shaiye
  107. "I am equal, loved, unique, purposed, and worthy merely because I am me." Kris McElroy