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.
The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music.
I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.
And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don'treally understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.
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.
My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, specifically). But there were certainly traits within that condition, within the autism spectrum in general, especially at the high functioning end, that I think are best looked at as pluses.
The chemtrails can cause all these things. Autism. It's not just vaccines that have gone wrong. The chemtrails that are causing all this that you see flying above you. You've seen 'em, folks, streaks. Usually behind airplanes. That's why they're called chemtrails. Contrails. You think they're contrails, but they're actually very insidious things, chemtrails.
Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".
Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism.
There are disagreements over whether autism is something that should be always and all the time embraced and celebrated as just a different way to be human, or whether autism sometimes can be really so debilitating to individuals that you want to do something to change those disabilities in them.
Together, we’ll beat autism.
It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.
I volunteered at UCLA's occupational therapy ward, where there are lots of kids with autism and emotional problems. I just wanted to prove to myself that I could not break down and cry at everything, and that I could just help somebody else. The one thing I really remember was that when we would take them out of the hospital for a walk around campus, they would freak out the most when we were waiting for the elevator. I remember the guy at the elevator said to himself, "Transitions are the hardest. " And I said to myself, "Transitions are always the hardest. "
Children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.
This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.
Normal' is a dryer setting.
I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.
Never underestimate someone with Autism, because there could be Brilliance struggling to get out.
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.