Autism Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Autism
Autism Quotes & Sayings
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This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
— Charles Dickens
Do not tell me what i should identify as. That is my choice not yours.
— Tina J. Richardson
My thoughts and ideas are floating images in my mind. I find when it difficult to convert the pictures into words.
— Tina J. Richardson
Hugs may come less frequently from someone with autism but when they do, you know it means everything.
— Stuart Duncan
Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.
— John Donvan
But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.
— Melanie Bennett
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.
— Jodi Picoult
I rolled up my sleeve. Penned on my arm in my own writing: If I prove I'm not selfish, Daniel will love me.
— Jordan Castillo Price
There is a lot more to Autism, to simply call it a disability.
— Tina J. Richardson
Autistic adults were once autistic kids. We grow up and need acceptance and understanding as well.
— Tina J. Richardson
Be original, give people a chance to love you for being you.
— Tina J. Richardson
Do the best you can and never stop.
— Stephen Wiltshire
She became an illusion of herself. It was easier to cope with people that way
— Tina J. Richardson
I take criticism to heart. The words hit me literally and it hurts. It can take me a long time to recover from it.
— Tina J. Richardson
I carry all the thoughts and feelings Ive ever had. Conversations, smells tastes and visions. Yet you. Wonder why I am always so tired?!?
— Tina J. Richardson
I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why the planets spin.
— Jerry Newport
I feel everything intensely, but sometimes I can't feel anything, I'm either hyper aware or numb.
— Tina J. Richardson
Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.
— Jenny McCarthy
I don't play NT games, If you want me to know something tell me, simple!
— Tina J. Richardson
As an autistic, I have thoughts and ideas of my own. Not all people on the spectrum think the same.
— Tina J. Richardson
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury — T.K. Thorne
Ray Bradbury — T.K. Thorne
Autism - a different way of thinking.
— Tina J. Richardson
I'm an autistic girl. I have many years to grow. I'm going to rock my life. Just watch me shine
— Tina J. Richardson
I don't know how to talk to people. Social rules are difficult to understand as they keep changing. I never know what people expect from me.
— Tina J. Richardson
Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".
— Hans Asperger
I like to know what's happening to prepare myself. I make up scenarios in my mind about what may happen. This helps me cope.
— Tina J. Richardson
I'm not ashamed of myself I am ashamed at the people that judge me without knowledge
— Tina J. Richardson
So is there a cure?' I asked.
'It's not a disease,' he explained. 'It doesn't need curing. It's just how you are — John Elder Robison
'It's not a disease,' he explained. 'It doesn't need curing. It's just how you are — John Elder Robison
We have pills for headaches. We have antidepressants for sadness. We had God for believers. We have nothing for autism.
— Lisa Genova
I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.
— Jenny McCarthy
I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
— Elizabeth Moon
Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~
— Eileen Miller
One of the hardest things for a person with autism to do is believe in themselves. But autistics have every right to be as proud as anyone.
— Stuart Duncan
All autism is real it's a spectrum.
— Tina J. Richardson
If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.
— Temple Grandin
Katie, 90% of the things you worry about don't happen, and the 10% that do, you can't do anything about.
— Mary Fisher
I am fine as an autistic person, value me as I am. Don't look at me as a broken neurotypical.
— Tina J. Richardson
My arms sometimes move on their own in big flapping motions, as if I might take off, and my hands spin like a hummingbird's wings.
— Ned Hayes
The three characters used for the word "autism" in Japanese signify "self," "shut" and "illness.
— Naoki Higashida
I may look like I'm not listening but trust me I'm memorising everything .
— Tina J. Richardson
Conversations sometimes are so hard to follow.
People are so confusing with the wrong facial
expressions for their words. — Tina J. Richardson
People are so confusing with the wrong facial
expressions for their words. — Tina J. Richardson
A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people.
— Adrienne Bailon
She felt lost and misunderstood. She felt like she was drowning. Overwhelmed. Unaccepted. Alone.
— Tina J. Richardson
There are skeletons in this earth.
— Corinne Duyvis
Autistic people view the world in a different light, in ways many could never imagine.
— Tina J. Richardson
In our machine-dominated society of megacities, countless people suffer some degree of what has been termed ecological autism.
— Howard John Clinebell
I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.
— Temple Grandin
You'd be surprised
just how many people
are autistic. Stop the stereotypes. — Tina J. Richardson
just how many people
are autistic. Stop the stereotypes. — Tina J. Richardson
Social awkwardness is not a crime.
— Idir Aitsahalia
Her mind interprets the world differently. She feels and sees things with a unique perspective. This is what makes her so magnificent.
— Tina J. Richardson
Who knows what goes on in that girl's head? Who knows what goes on in anybody's head really?
— Arlene Hunt
I'm not damaged, I don't need fixing. I'm just different. Embrace different
— Tina J. Richardson
I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.
— Jenny McCarthy
They were not brave enough to accept her as she came.
She made her own path where she found herself,
she followed it to her own people. — Tina J. Richardson
She made her own path where she found herself,
she followed it to her own people. — Tina J. Richardson
Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.
— Allan Snyder
Autism is a very serious condition.
— George Osborne
Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams.
— Dr. Linda Barboa
Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.
— Adrienne Bailon
Social media helps me a lot. It also causes a lot of shutdowns
— Tina J. Richardson
Never underestimate someone with Autism, because there could be Brilliance struggling to get out.
— Stuart Duncan
There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.
— Andrew Solomon
I am a whole person. I'm not a neurotypical person with an 'autism' part. I'm not a disabled neurotypical. I am a whole autisic person!.
— Tina J. Richardson
There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself.
— Jodi Picoult
Children with special needs inspire a special love.
— Sarah Palin
Years of people pushing and demanding that she conform left a scar on her soul that kept her own self from emerging
— Tina J. Richardson
Sometimes. In busy places. I may need to escape. I'm not being rude. I'm helping myself.
— Tina J. Richardson
Please don't obsess on the number of friends i have or don't have. I'll find my own way, it will be right for me.
— Tina J. Richardson
I want you to understand I'm not lost in my own world, I'm just hiding from yours
— Tina J. Richardson
Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not.
— Liz Becker
In 1997, cognitive psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen found that the fathers and grandfathers of children with autism were more likely to be engineers.
— Steve Silberman
She felt everything deeply,
soaking up the world like a sponge.
While slowly squeezing out her soul, leaving her drained. — Tina J. Richardson
soaking up the world like a sponge.
While slowly squeezing out her soul, leaving her drained. — Tina J. Richardson
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
— Jenny McCarthy
Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.
— Harvey V. Fineberg
Curing autism would be the same as "curing" science and art.
— Kristine Barnett
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'
— Temple Grandin
Why do non autistic people have interests/hobbies. But, autistic people have obsessions?
— Tina J. Richardson
I wonder if the World would feel differently about me if they could see how life feels viewing it like I do, through my eyes.
— Tina J. Richardson
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.
— Claire Danes
There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.
— Solange Nicole
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
— Claire Scovell LaZebnik