Children With Autism Quotes

• What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Autism, Missing

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• Don't think that there's a different, better child 'hiding' behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Inspiring, Children, Thinking

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• If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.

  Stephen Shore

  Autism, Mets, Persons

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• Winning isn't the end of the world

  David Pleat

  Letting Go, Being Single, Breast Cancer

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• We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Real, Epidemics

  "Preventing Another Generation of Children With Autism" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child.

  Stuart Duncan

  Children, Autism, Too Much

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Children with Autism aren't missing. Instead, they are off making discoveries

  Jacob Barnett

  Children, Discovery, Autism

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• If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

  Temple Grandin

  Motivational, Change, Positive

  "The Most Inspiring Bits of Temple Grandin’s Reddit AMA" by Emily Shire, www.thedailybeast.com. November 17, 2014.

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• The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Educational, Two

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

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• Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.

  Clay Aiken

  Children, Inspiration, Opportunity

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• Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time.

  Stuart Duncan

  Children, Moving, Autism

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• As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism.

  Deron Williams

  Children, Autism, Parent

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• I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

  Fred Melamed

  Children, Believe, Two

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• If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Autism, Parent

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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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