Quotes on autism or asperger's

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does anyone know any good qoutes relating to the Autistic Spectrum?


I searched on yahoo but i kept getting negative one by people from autism speaks.



does anyone know any?

* "I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life" - Tony Attwood.
* "It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential" - Hans Asperger.
* "Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart" - Allan Snyder, director of Sydney University's Centre for the Mind.
* "After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves" - Temple Grandin.
* "I wouldn't be where I am today if I were neurotypical because I would have been interested in social things. Having a little autism helped me achieve my goals and not miss what most people thought I was missing out on" - Evan Delaney Rodgers, autistic politician.

"I hit this person in the road the other day, totally by accident. I stopped, hopped out of my car, and ran over to help this person i so carelessly ran into. Then, to my horror, i realized he had died. I freaked out, and was about to call the police, but just then i noticed he had an autism bracelet on, signifying it was someone with some form of autism. I was relieved. "Well, at least it wasn't a person" I said. I hopped in my car and drove away, washing off the mess that thing left on my car once i got home." - Michael Jordon

Saying autism is required for intelligence is wrong. At the same time not being positive is wrong. I wish folks were to stop with the half truths so I could figure out what truth is most of the time. - Nathan Young

Which Nathan Young said that?

Me.

Maybe not required, but the autistic can do phenomenal things if their special interests are in the right field. There's no doubt autism has been of great benefit to science.

I will just add a couple quotes that I have:

"My journey has just begun."---in reference to my understanding myself since being diagnosed with AS a few years ago.

"I would be afraid to know where I would be in life had I not been born an Aspie/autistic."

I am eternally gratefully for my sensory overload, transitional difficulties and my inability as an adult to mainstream. I am hopeful for the opposition to research and awareness that considers it bigotry to call my difficulties a puzzle to figure out to help me, seeks to remove specialized educational settings and relating advancements in progress like I needed when I was a child by considering it discriminatory to have this adaptive choice and I simply pardon others that undermine progress but at the same time they call progress as they call me a disorder label in reference to my individuality or else it is bigotry. I am thankful for not them but those they call the Nazi's who are good people that just seek the help and understand. - Nathan Young

A joke by Wittgenstein: "... 9, 5, 1, 4, 1, 3. Done!" "What were you doing, God?" "Oh, just reciting all the digits of pi backwards." --@seanmcarroll

I love these:

"For all we know, the first tools on earth might have been developed by a loner sitting at the back of the cave, chipping at thousands of rocks to find the one that made the sharpest spear, while the neurotypicals chattered away in the firelight.




Perhaps certain arcane systems of logic, mathematics, music, and stories - particularly remote and fantastic ones - have been passed down from phenotype to phenotype, in parallel with the DNA that helped shape minds which would know exactly what to do with these strange and elegant creations."


According to Autism Speaks,
Autism is not a way of being,
but a PLAGUE which will (they SAY this...) steal your marriage and your children, and bankrupt you,
and I guess after that there are the four horsemen, and the asteroid, and Ben Affleck pops up at some point, and so forth.

"Not everything that steps out of line, and thus 'abnormal', must necessarily be 'inferior'" - Hans Asperger (1938)

He fought against a Nazi law in Austria that called for extermination of 'offspring suffering from hereditary illnesses.' That is why he made the comment. I need to find the opening paragraph of his paper again, it was essentially the same thing. It is in my school's library.

Inferiority perceived to compassionately assist to adapt is not necessary exterminationism of being. While the past can teach us a lesson the present may be haunted by the reflection of the past. A false belief is knowing only absolutes comparatively translated from the reflections.

It is a puzzle for you. Why should I give you the answer.