“If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.” IfsShouldPersonsStuffSimplePeriodsBehaviorObviousImprovementAutismMedication Author:Temple Grandin
“When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.” BloodAmountDrugBehaviorTestsTreatsPressureObjectivesSugarAutismDiabetesBlood PressureHigh Blood Pressure Author:Temple Grandin
“Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.” ThinkingLanguageMemoriesAnimalTalkingBehaviorSmellCategoriesAutismSensoryAnimal Behavior Author:Temple Grandin
“Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.” LooksBehaviorDefinedAutism Author:John Donvan
“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.” TwoDifferentLanguageSocialUnderstandingInterestDegreesBehaviorIntellectualCoreFeaturesDisabilityReach OutAutismDelayCognitionDifferent DirectionsRepetitiveEpilepsyIntellectual Disability Author:Gerald Fischbach
“A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.” EyeBehaviorGuiltFlatsAutismHallmarkMisinterpreted Author:Jodi Picoult
“Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome are some conditions that are superimposed and grafted on to some underlying disability. So savant syndrome is not a disease or disorder in and of itself. It is a collection of characteristics, or symptoms, or behaviors that have grafted on to the underlying disability.” WayConditionsDiseaseBehaviorCharacteristicsCollectionsDisorderDisabilityAutismSymptomsSyndromesDementiaSavants Author:Darold Treffert
“The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism.” ThinkingParticularBehaviorAutism Author:Darold Treffert
“The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.” IfsKnowsYearsKindChildrenTwoDifferentCertainThreeDifferencesBrainCasesPersonalityAmountSpeechBehaviorObviousEducationalThree YearsAutismSevereDelayInterventionInitialsGet RealAbnormalVariablesGood EducationNeurologyAspergersThree Year OldsChildren With Autism Author:Temple Grandin
“One thing I'd like to just keep on doing is I want to educate people about animal behavior and about autism. I've been doing autism talks for the last 20 years and there still are people out there that do not want to, they can't recognize that these sensory problems are real. That, for some of these kids when that fire alarm goes off, that really hurts the ears, it's a really real thing.” PeopleWantYearsStillsRealProblemKidsLastsHurtAnimalFireOne ThingBehaviorEarsEducateAutismAlarmsReal ThingsSensoryAnimal Behavior Author:Temple Grandin
“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.” IfsPersonsCommunityInspiringConditionsPersonalityMetsBehaviorInfiniteVarietyLabelsAutismSyndromesAspergersAsperger's Syndrome Author:Hugh Dancy