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I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits. -- Temple Grandin
I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac. -- Temple Grandin
You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out. -- Temple Grandin
Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it. -- Temple Grandin
It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child. -- Jenny McCarthy
For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery. -- Jenny McCarthy
The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play. -- Temple Grandin
I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on. -- Clay Aiken
Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices. -- Temple Grandin
Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity. -- Charles Colson
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation. -- Temple Grandin
At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years. -- Jenny McCarthy
I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved. -- Temple Grandin
It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing. -- Temple Grandin
Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart. -- Allan Snyder
I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why the planets spin. -- Jerry Newport
As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment. -- Temple Grandin
Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really hard for them, but it can happen. -- Tisha Campbell-Martin
Autistic children are very difficult to take care of, especially severely autistic ones. When I was 4, I had almost no language; when I was 3, I had none at all. -- Temple Grandin
There's no doubt having an autistic child represents tremendous challenges for both the children and their parents, but in my experience, it has brought me closer to my family and has given me an appreciation for how the human brain develops and the uniqueness of each child it afflicts. -- Manny Alvarez
Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests that many individuals whom we would today diagnose as autistic - some severely so - contributed profoundly to our art, our math, our science, and our literature. -- Morton Ann Gernsbacher
I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is now two, and be absolutely paranoid, particularly because he loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and lots of autys love Thomas. But he is not very good at pointing, and autistic children absolutely love pointing. -- Helena Bonham Carter
If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream. -- Jean Piaget
I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal-so we can't know for sure what your 'normal' is even like. But so long as we can learn to love ourselves, I'm not sure how much it matters whether we're normal or autistic. -- Naoki Higashida
Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy. -- Claire Danes
One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing. -- Luke Ford
My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet. -- Nikki Reed
My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours. -- John Travolta
It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school. -- Temple Grandin
I sometimes think that I might be slightly autistic. There might be a syndrome that hasn't been named. I don't seem to see the world in the same way that most people I know see it. They don't seem to be baffled by it. -- John Banville
Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration. -- Daniel H. Wilson
It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. -- Temple Grandin
Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as constricting as that hugging machine designed by autistic author Temple Grandin - then Boxing Day feels like a bar after last call when the lights have been turned up. -- David Rakoff
I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder. -- Douglas Coupland
Mom worked with autistic children. -- Isabel Lucas
We're all a little nit autistic. -- Dustin Hoffman
I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric. -- Andrew Hill
The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence. -- Hans Asperger
People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think. -- Temple Grandin
Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief. -- Melanie Roach
Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why. -- Andrew Solomon
Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not. -- Liz Becker
Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child. -- Stuart Duncan
The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities. -- Jonathan Friesen
I'm glad Carol Vorderman has left Countdown, I mean it's not like she did much. She was effectively just an autistic shelf-stacker. -- Michael McIntyre
If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first. -- Stuart Duncan
We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists. -- Dan Marino
A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done. -- George Carlin
People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world. -- Oliver Sacks
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

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