Autism Quotes - Page 11

• William Stillman's Autism and the God Connection is a sensitive and illuminating work which could dramatically change how we view autism.

  Carol Bowman

  Views, Connections, Sensitive

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• Autism is not a choice. Acceptance is. Imagine if the opposite was true.

  Stuart Duncan

  Acceptance, Opposites, Choices

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• Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.

  Rick Rollens

  Cancer, Vaccines, Smoking

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• I don't think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple's courage and her resourcefulness.. She is really pioneering in both the world of autism and animal rights. She has encouraged an incredibly positive change in the world.

  Claire Danes

  Character, Animal, Thinking

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• What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Jobs, Children, Writing

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• People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

  Temple Grandin

  People, Next, Computer

  "Temple Grandin On The Secret To Success For Kids With Autism". Interview with Macrina Cooper-White, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2014.

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• The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism.

  Darold Treffert

  Thinking, Behavior, Particular

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part II: D". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Parents don't particularly care whether it's early infantile autism or whatever label the clinicians have put on it. All they want is treatment, and they want what's best for their child, whatever that is. And when it comes to treatment, it may be that there's much more shared interventions that don't make any difference what label we're putting on it.

  Darold Treffert

  Children, Differences, Parent

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part II: D". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 13, 2011.

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• I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism", and then it became "autism", and now it's "autism spectrum disorder". I'm not opposed to that from the standpoint of trying to broaden our vistas, and so forth. But from a research point of view, the term autism is lost in specificity.

  Darold Treffert

  Thinking, Views, Trying

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part II: D". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

  Darold Treffert

  Thinking, Brain, Structure

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part III:". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 15, 2011.

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• Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all the way from Einstein, emollient scientist, just a little bit of the trait, many scientist and engineers, down to somebody that's going to remain nonverbal.

  Temple Grandin

  Skills, People, Variables

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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