A Quotes
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“Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.”
Source: The affluent society
“Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.”
“AuthorZoom- You do the writing, let us do the rest.”
“Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.”
“Autism didn’t change my love—it deepened it.”
Source: Spectrum of Love: My Journey Through Autism: A Mother's Story of Love, Advocacy, and Awareness
“Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.”
“Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.”
“Autism give us a chance to know our "Quantumness" have a deeper Insight, Understand and raise collective Consciousness.”
“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.”
“autism is a description of who I am and who other autistics are and not at all an affliction that haunts us.”
Source: The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
“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.”
“Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.”
“Autism is a very serious condition.”
“Autism is an extremely variable disorder.”
“Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.”
“Autism is dominantly conceived of as a pathological threat to (normative, liberal versions of) individual life and is even framed as actively spoiling/wasting away this life.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not.”
“autism is more like retina patterns than measles”
Source: The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
“Autism is not a choice. Acceptance is. Imagine if the opposite was true.”
“Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.”
“Autism is not a disease to be cured, autism is normal, a different kind of normal, but normal no less, and with a modest amount of care the acclimation feels less challenging.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Autism is not a snapshot. It's a life.”
“Autism is not scary!
Autism is a beautiful heart somewhere deep inside you.”
“Autism is part of who I am.”
“Autism is preventable with a known cause and cure - the sunlight.”
Source: Autism and Sunlight
“Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.”
“Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output.”
“Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the autism. Autism is a way of being. It is pervasive; it colors every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion and encounter - every aspect of existence. It is not possible to separate the autism from the person – and if it were possible, the person you'd have left would not be the same person you started with.”
“Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated with some degree of intellectual disability, but the two core features of autism, I see, is impairments and social cognition, understanding and in restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!”
“Autism; It's not new just because you haven't heard of it until now.”
“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.”
“Autistic children don’t need fixing—they need understanding. Their minds aren’t broken, just beautifully different”
“Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit.”
Source: A Kind of Spark
“Autistic reality is of much value as non-Autistic reality”
“Autistic savants tend to have left-brain dysfunction coupled with right-brain compensation, and this has led numerous research groups to wonder if sabotaging a portion of the left brain might grant savant-like abilities. Numerous experimenters, but most especially neurobiologist Allan Snyder at the University of Sydney in Australia, have used magnetic pulses to temporarily disable the left anterior temporal lobe of the brain in ordinary people before giving them specific tasks.8 In one case, participants were given a minute to draw a horse, dog, or face. In others, they were given challenging proofreading or number-estimation tasks after being exposed to the magnetic pulse. In all experiments, a portion of the participants showed dramatic improvements.9 After one drawing experiment, one man could not believe that the highly accurate drawings were his own. Yet the effects were not universal; savantlike skills were not induced in everyone. Nobody knows why. That’s obviously worth looking into, but even more intriguing is what happens to these superhuman abilities when autism is ultimately cured.”
“Autistic traits, taken together, represent everything that allistics devalue in an audience or social exchange.”
Source: Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness
“Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.”
“Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only at the very end of this volume, in conjunction with her finding and marrying her husband of 30 years, Ron Weldon. In this sense, it is half a memoir, the private background story to the public future. (...) The reader is forced to re-evaluate the spectacular weirdness of Weldon's fiction: having lived such a life any other kind would seem insipid.”
“Auto Fart" definition - when auto correction doesn't quite make it. Like 'Grey Poupon' is auto corrected to "poo upon".”
“Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.”
Source: Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy
“Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.”
Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
“Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.”
“Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and deciding the best course of action in the face of that future are much less likely to do so. And much of what we've seen so far suggests that a large group of diverse individuals will come up with better and more robust forecasts and make more intelligent decisions than even the most skilled "decision maker."”
“Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.”
“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our storyline into the annuals of time. To endure a mortal life is merely a transitory experience whereas writing about how one lived is an internalized exposition of what it means to be human. Writing is an external exhibition injecting the author into the world’s consciousness.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.”
“Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time. This misleads, as much as those beautiful photographs of a past holiday abstract from the heat, the mosquitoes, and the lack of connectivity.”
Source: I Do What I Do