Browse 658 quotes about Autism.
“I see autism as having many different strands. All of these strands are beautiful. They are all the colours of the rainsbow intertwined intricately into the child. If you try and take away the autism by removing the strands you also take away parts of the child as they are attached to them. Thhey are what makes them who they are. However autism is only a part of them, not the whole. It does not define them.
This is for my Tom.”
Source: Life on the Spectrum. The Preschool Years. Getting the Help and Support You Need.
“ABA never promised that it could make children normal. Just indistinguishable from normal.”
“Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist.”
Source: The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art
“In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity...
No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism.”
Source: The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art
“My alphabet hates itself. Like ... imagine someone says, ‘Think outside the box.’ My hyperactive mind creates a sphere and laughs at the box and researches for hours on end how much better spheres are. Then my Autism freaks out that I broke the rules without realising there were any, and wonders why we are supposed to think
inside cardboard boxes in the first place. Surely being inside cardboard boxes isn’t comfortable.”
“Behind the disability, we have a heart and a mind.”
“Around this time, I was again tested for partial deafness, for although I could speak I often didn't use language in the same way as others and often got no meaning out of what
was said to me. Although words are symbols, it would be misleading to say that I did not understand symbols. I had a whole system of relating that I considered "my language." It was other people who did not understand the symbolism I used, and there was no way I could or was going to tell them what I meant. I developed a language of my own. Everything I did, from holding two fingers together to scrunching up my toes, had a meaning, usually to do with reassuring myself that I was in control and no one could reach me, wherever the hell I was. Sometimes it had to do with telling people how I felt, but it was so subtle it was often unnoticed or simply taken to be some new quirk that "mad Donna" had thought up.”
Source: Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl
“Castles in the air—they are so easy to take refuge in. And easy to build, too. (The Master Builder, act 3)”
Source: Henrik Ibsen: Four Major Plays
“Want to know the worst thing about being autistic? It's not the autism."
I throw the napkin down and push back my chair.
"It's people like you.”
Source: Keedie
“I find people confusing.
This is for two main reasons.
The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words. Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can mean lots of different things. It can mean "I want to do sex with you" and it can also mean "I think that what you said was very stupid.”
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
“The bottom line is this: environmental toxins are all around us, and they stimulate the production of free radicals, which can cause axidative damage to any kind of cell, be it muscle, nerve, liver, kidney,, heart, brain, and so on, and cause autoimmune disease.”
“your ears are too small for some things”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“his tears came way before any words”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“I think that the only thing keeping my grandma and ol' man Coles apart is their skin color”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“the kind of mud that pulls your shoes off”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“Everybody got a past but the kind of past my grandma and Red got ain't the kind they like to talk about”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“If food or music ain't helping none then you know something must be really wrong”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“Her music drawer looked like a rainbow”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“There's more to me than these earrings and blonde hair. I got dreams too.”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“I always been just me so I always been somebody”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“some friends are bought, some friends don't cost a dime”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“Winning is great, but being accepted is greater”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“Don't be afraid of something because we always learn from something different”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“He didn’t need to be ‘fixed.’ He needed to be understood.”
Source: Spectrum of Love: My Journey Through Autism: A Mother's Story of Love, Advocacy, and Awareness
“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
“Representation matters. Our stories matter. Black families deserve to be seen in every conversation about autism.”
Source: Spectrum of Love: My Journey Through Autism: A Mother's Story of Love, Advocacy, and Awareness
“The hardest part of parenting through autism isn’t the diagnosis—it’s the silence that follows when support doesn’t come.”
Source: Spectrum of Love: My Journey Through Autism: A Mother's Story of Love, Advocacy, and Awareness
“There is no single spectrum. Every child colors their world in their own way—and every hue is worthy of love.”
Source: Spectrum of Love: My Journey Through Autism: A Mother's Story of Love, Advocacy, and Awareness
“If I were growing up today, I probably would be diagnosed on the autism spectrum.”
Source: Source Code - Meine Anfänge
“Hugs made Matt feel like he was being attacked, especially when he was already overwhelmed.”
Source: An Obsession With Justice
“I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine;
watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school;
count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over
and I am only a little afraid
of the night.”
Source: The Sound of Letting Go
“Teachers should be made aware of visual stress symptoms and the potential difference coloured lights, overlays and lenses could make to a learners perception.”
Source: Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
“autism is more like retina patterns than measles”
Source: The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
“She doesn't care about social hierarchies, or social etiquette. If she disagrees with you, your friends or your family, you're likely to hear about it.”
Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“Many women latch onto language from popular psychology, such as "panic attack," when often they are instead experiencing sensory overwhelm.”
Source: Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
“[Temple Grandin] told him that the one thing she wanted more than anything else in life was for someone to hug her - but the moment that anyone did, she couldn't bear it.”
Source: NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
“Parenting is more personal while herding is leading the path to do things together as a family. To describe both in a simple way, having a meaningful conversation with each of our children is parenting while eating out together as a family is herding. Doing both creates happy memories that we want our children to keep and not scars that won’t heal forever.”
Source: I Love You Because I Love You
“My journey will hopefully help others.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Be strong.”
“You’re not defective, Ewan,’ she continued. ‘You’re not broken. You’re not the wrong kind of person. And don’t let anyone in this world tell you otherwise. You and your friends are exactly who they’re meant to be.”
Source: Underdogs
“This got us thinking, since autistic individuals have been shown to have abnormal amygdalae, perhaps there is also aluminum on the amygdala in children with autism.”
Source: Vaccine Science Revisited: Are Childhood Immunizations As Safe As Claimed?
“If you want to be present, just be present, you cant force it you can't overthink it. Insisting on being present in and of itself detaches a person from a moment. by making a conscious effort to engage and connect, you end up thinking rather than feeling. and you miss the moment completely. nothing numbs feelings like thoughts.”
“If they don't see it's wrong, if they don't say it's wrong, it can happen again. It could happen to you; it could happen to me.”
Source: A Kind of Spark
“Whether the autistic subject is inscribed as 'nearly' developed or 'under' developed, developmental discourses always situate the autistic subject as partially developed and thus not fully human. [...] Developmentalist discourses frame the autistic subject in need of advocacy as a kind of development project, the autistic body becomes understood as 'develop-able.' The autistic is, in other words, framed as one who needs to be taught humanness.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“Watch,' the posters tell the potential advocate, but only if you embody normalcy. For it is normalcy, the posters point out, that is endowed with the power of the qualification to see. Abnormalcy is unseeing. . . Autism is not qualified to see itself.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“[The] excited, angry, upset, or calm choreography of fingers fluttering is simultaneously medicalized and moralized: re-encoded as '[an] odd or repetitive way of moving fingers.' The quiet play of a lone child in a busy playground is now seen as a pathological sign pointing not to personal choice or preference or even to social exclusion but to (medical/moral) deviance.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“Despite the constant lament that autism is just too costly, a significant or even 'crippling' economic burden for the social whole, the production of the time-rich but not time-efficient body of the autistic child has generated a multibillion dollar 'autism industrial complex.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“As it represents and thus conceives of autism as a threat to the normative individual and social body, contemporary advocacy work issues an effective and powerful 'call to arms' against autism. The orientation of contemporary advocacy is clear: to be a 'good' autism advocate is to be positioned 'against' autism, to 'fight' it, 'combat' it, 'defeat' it, and so on. . . It is this war on autism that I take as my focus for the remainder of this book. I do this so as to interrogate how a militarized autism advocacy is systematically producing and sustaining a social environment that is hostile to autistic difference—an environment that, as we shall see, structures and supports possibilities for violence against those who embody autistic difference.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“While increasing numbers function to expand out, increasing odds conjure an atmosphere of enclosure and confinement. Growing odds tell an allegorical story of a circle that is closing in zeroing in on the '1,' which is, inevitably your '1.' To borrow the tagline from a 2010 Autism Speaks PSA, 'autism is getting closer to home.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“Within dominant discourses of autism advocacy, the autistic subjectivity—located simultaneously in the perpetual past (e.g. developmentally 'too slow' and always late) and the future (e.g. yet-to-be developed)—is discursively foreclosed from being (existing) in the privileged and agentive time of the 'now.' Via a kind of time-sensitive investment logic, autism is understood not as a being but as a happening—a costly body, a disruptive threat, a risky trend, and so on—a happening, moreover, that is happening fast.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“In the ratio, as autism rates are understood to be increasing, the autistic 1 stays the same; it is rather the non-autistic population that seems to be getting smaller. . . The ratio works, in effect, to structure a rivalry or competition—a kind of Foucaultian 'agon' or contest—between constructed oppositions: autism/nonautism, pathology/health, underdevelopment/development, cost/benefit.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence