Happy Internationaler Welt-Austismus-Tag! Happy World Autism Awareness Day!

Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.
Adrienne Bailon

Es scheint uns, als wäre für gewisse wissenschaftliche oder künstlerische Höchstleistungen ein Schuss ´Autismus´ geradezu notwendig.
Hans Asperger

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'
Temple Grandin

Das Leben im Autismus ist eine miserable Vorbereitung auf das Leben in einer Welt ohne Autismus. Die Höflichkeit hat viele Näpfchen aufgestellt, in die man treten kann. Autisten sind Meister darin, keines auszulassen.
Axel Brauns

We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services.
Jenny McCarthy

Manche Geräusche schmerzen meine Ohren so, wie wenn der Bohrer beim Zahnarzt einen Nerv trifft.
Temple Grandin

Autism is part of who I am.
Temple Grandin

Für das übliche Hin- und Her eines Gespräches hatte ich kein Gefühl. Am einfachsten wäre es gewesen, wenn ich gleich hätte sagen dürfen, was ich zu sagen hatte und der andere anschließend gesprochen hätte. Dieses Vor- und Zurückspringen, diese Bemühung darum, eine Bemerkung an der richtigen Stelle unterzubringen, das war schwierig und ermüdend.
Gunilla Gerland

Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.
Mary Bono

Ich lernte allmählich, was Angst war, wie es sein musste, wenn jemand Trauer empfindet oder Enttäuschung. Es waren Bilder, auf denen Gefühle dargestellt wurden, die mir halfen zu verstehen, was gemeint war, wenn von jemandem gesagt wurde, er sei traurig.
Dietmar Zöller

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.
Temple Grandin

Je mehr mir die Welt um mich herum bewusst wurde, desto ängstlicher wurde ich. Andere Menschen waren meine Feinde, und nach mir zu langen war ihre Waffe, es gab nur wenige Ausnahmen -
meine Großeltern, mein Vater und Tante Linda.
Donna Williams

Don't think that there's a different, better child 'hiding' behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child. You may have to work harder on some of this, but that's the goal.
Claire Scovell LaZebnik

Wenn ich morgens unser Frühstück vorbereite, führe ich täglich jeden Handgriff genau gleich aus. In der Regel stimmt sogar die Uhrzeit auf die Minute genau mit der vom Vortag überein…. Ein gewohnter Ablauf hilft mir, komplexe Handlungsabläufe überschauen und erfolgreich erledigen zu können.
Nicole Schuster

The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.
Jenny McCarthy

Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
Ban Ki-moon

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.
Jenny McCarthy

Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't think in a language, and animals don't think in a language. It's sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. It's putting these sensory based memories into categories.
Temple Grandin

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.
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.
Daniel Tammet

I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.
Jenny McCarthy

Being a typical teenager isn't easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well as compassion towards these young people.
Holly Robinson Peete

To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
Ban Ki-moon

The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.
Irwin Redlener

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.
Seth Godin

I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of autism, and they make it impossible to operate in the environment where you're supposed to be social.
Temple Grandin

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.
Jenny McCarthy

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.
Jenny McCarthy

Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'
Temple Grandin

If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about whether that link exists and not what scientists know, which is that there isn't a link between vaccines and autism. It's a feedback loop that's invisible.
Eli Pariser

What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
Jenny McCarthy

I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?
Jenny McCarthy