“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.” PeopleChildrenKidsSchoolGamesToo MuchEmotionalNormalEmpathyBaseballMental HealthIncrediblesAutismSensoryAutisticStimulationBaseball GamesOverloadCafeteriaMeltdownsInformation OverloadLack Of EmpathyNo EmpathySchool Cafeteria Author:Temple Grandin
“I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.” ThinkingHumansDoeMadeBrainEmotionalNormalAutismVariationAbnormal Author:Temple Grandin
“Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.” KindAbleConditionsMediaNormalNegativeCommunicateHappy LifeAutismSocializing Author:Daniel Tammet
“Normal' is a dryer setting.” NormalSettingSettingsAutismDryers Book:The Speed of Dark: A Novel Source: The Speed of Dark: A Novel
“And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don'treally understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.” KnowsLooksFactsNaturalNormalComfortableStaringAutismEyeballsAspergersPerfectly Natural Author:John Elder Robison