People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?
You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.
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.
In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that is where interactions with the environment are key.
I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.
I think that if I could do any sort of research of autism that I wanted to do, at this point I would take a sample of classic, early infantile autism persons and compare them with what I call "classic late onset autism", individuals. I think we will find that the cause of those youngsters with autism who have autism from birth is probably different than those who have late onset autism.
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.
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.
Katie, 90% of the things you worry about don't happen, and the 10% that do, you can't do anything about.
There's a saying within the Asperger community: if you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome, you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome. . . Within this condition, beneath this label, the variety of personality, of humor, of behavior, is infinite.
Never underestimate someone with Autism, because there could be Brilliance struggling to get out.
There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.
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
I do not suffer from Autism, but I do suffer from the way you treat me.
I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.
Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are visual thinkers like me. Other kids are pattern thinkers - your mathematicians, your programmers. And there are others, they are word thinkers. Uneven skills. You need to take the thing that they're good at and you need to work on developing it.
The reason why the medical community is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.
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.
Never ask for someone's thoughts on autism unless you are prepared to hear a story that doesn't resemble your own.
Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.