56 Quotes About Autistic

  • Author Paul Isaacs
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    Reflecting on my Autism - The processing and communication issues that I have I look at it like this I have had set cards dealt to me and I'm going play them to the best of my abilities.

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  • Author Temple Grandin
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    In dealing with autism, I'm certainly not saying we should lose sight of the need to work on deficits, But the focus on deficits is so intense and so automatic that people lose sight of the strengths.

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  • Author Joanne Harris
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    There she goes. How strange she is: my winter child; my changeling. Wild as an armful of birds, she flies everywhere in an instant. There is no keeping her inside, no making her sit quietly. She has never been like other girls, never like other children. Rosette is a force of nature, like the jackdaws that sit on the steeple and laugh, like a fall of unseasonal snow, like the blossom on the wind.

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  • Author Jim Adams
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    The thinking is that autistic kids have low absorption of nutrients, possibly because so many have inflammation of the digestive system. It just seems they need many more nutrients to get absorption at a decent level.

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  • Author Douglas Coupland
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    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.

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  • Author Temple Grandin
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    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.

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  • Author Amanda Peloso
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    Through PALS I met these autistic kids and do things with them, like bowling or going to the movies.

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