14 Powerful Quotes About Autism

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28 Feb 2023, 11:52 am

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Behavior is communication. Change the environment and behaviors will change. — Lana David

I've listened enough. It's time for me to speak, however it may sound. Through an electronic device, my hands or my mouth. Now it's your time to listen. Are you ready? —Neal Katz

Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. — Alan Turing

I view 'autistic' as a word for a part of how my brain works, not for a narrow set of behaviors and certainly not for a set of boundaries of a stereotype that I have to stay inside. — Amanda Baggs

English is my 2nd language. Autism is my first. — Dani Bowman

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. —Frank Zappa

Autism is as much a part of humanity as is the capacity to dream. — Kathleen Seidel

We contain the shapes of trees and the movement of rivers and stars within us. —Patrick Jasper Lee

Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.—Paul Collins

Why should I cry for not being an apple, when I was born an orange? I'd be crying for an illusion; I may as well cry for not being a horse. — Donna Williams

I am equal, loved, unique, purposed and worthy just because I am me. — Kris McElroy

There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself. — Susan Boyle


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“My autism is not a superpower. It also isn’t some kind of god-forsaken, endless fountain of suffering inflicted on my family. It’s just part of who I am as a person”. - Sara Luterman