Autism Quotes - Page 5

• There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They can do calendar calculations. And this is similar to some of the skills that animals have.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Skills, Cities

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

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• There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.

  Temple Grandin

  Black And White, Lines, Aspergers

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

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• From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

  Temple Grandin

  Aspergers, Syndromes, Disorder

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• Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.

  Temple Grandin

  College, Thinking, Animal

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to understand other people's thoughts.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Two, People, Inability

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

  Temple Grandin

  Men, Fire, Magic

  "Thinking in Pictures : My Life with Autism (Expanded Edition)". Book by Temple Grandin, 2006.

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• They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when the MMR is routinely given, so the association is merely coincidental and not causal. But the onset of autism at 18 months is a recent development. Autism starting at 18 months rose very sharply in the mid-1980s, when the MMR vaccine came into wide use. A coincidence? Hardly!

  Bernard Rimland

  Vaccines, Rose, Use

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• If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about whether that link exists and not what scientists know, which is that there isn't a link between vaccines and autism. It's a feedback loop that's invisible.

  Eli Pariser

  Views, Vaccines, Google

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• In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes.

  Temple Grandin

  Two, Awkward, Together

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

  Nicholas Sparks

  Our World, Aspergers, Way

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• When you see an object, it seems that you see it as an entire thing first, and only afterwards do its details follow on. But for people with autism, the details jump straight out at us first of all, and then only gradually, detail by detail, does the whole image float up into focus.

  Naoki Higashida

  People, Focus, Details

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• Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our five disparate senses. James Geary's fascinating and utterly readable I is an Other brings the news on metaphor from literature and economics, from neuroscience and politics, illuminating topics from consumer behavior to autism spectrum disorders to the evolution of language. As a writer, as a teacher, and as someone just plain fascinated by how our minds work, I've been waiting years for exactly this book.

  James Richardson

  Teacher, Book, New Experiences

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• To measure 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

  Different, Our Society, Should

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• I deliver babies for a living. I have certainly delivered more than 150 children in my lifetime, yet I'm always puzzled when I hear that one of those children I delivered has autism.

  Manny Alvarez

  Baby, Children, Lifetime

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Doe, Cognition

  "How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results". www.scientificamerican.com. August 01, 2008.

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• I have two boys on the autism spectrum. I don't always know what's best for them. However, I know there is grace for me in this area. I know there are parents in a similar space.

  Sho Baraka

  Boys, Two, Space

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Guilt, Behavior

  Simon & Schuster Interview, www.simonandschuster.com.

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• I get goose-bumps when you talk about Diane Wilson. Who knows where she found that courage? When she was a child, she would crawl under the bed when a stranger came to the house. But in 1989, she found out that her county in south Texas was ranked worst in the country for toxic waste. She wondered if the effluent, dumped into the waters where she and her family had shrimped for generations, might be responsible for the dwindling fish populations. And she suspected that her son's autism might be related to the pollution.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Country, Children, Son

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• As the diagnosis of autism is increasing the diagnosis of mental retardation is decreasing. And more and more on the other end, the high end, more children who are just a little bit off, who ordinarily you would not single out now are being described as perhaps Asperger’s syndrome or on the high end of the autism spectrum, so I don’t believe there is an epidemic.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Children, Believe, Epidemics

  "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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• I have, throughout my private war, been a she, a you,a Donna, a me, and finally, an I....If you sense distance,you're not mistaken; it's real. Welcome to my world.

  Donna Williams

  Real, War, Distance

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• For a long time our son ws a little boy with autism, which was a certain kind of challenge. Now that he's a teenager with autism - and a teenager who notices girls - we're faced with something else altogether.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Girl, Teenager, Son

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• It's not just the child that has autism. It's the whole family that has autism. It's not a one person thing.

  Ted Lindsay

  Children, Whole Family, Persons

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• Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Thinking, Doors

  Temple Grandin (2008). “The Way I See it: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's”, p.157, Future Horizons

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• Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.

  John Donvan

  Eye, Years, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you know, Van Gogh. And at the other end of the spectrum, you got much more severe handicaps where they never learn to speak.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Valleys, Half

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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