I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zo….

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream..

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do..

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….

I am different, not less.

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 circu….

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 scre….

In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the….

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be.

I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at. Being with people….

People on the autism spectrum don't think the same way you do. In my life, people who made a difference were those who didn't see labels, who believe….

If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am..

I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something beh….

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things..

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet..

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's lik….

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got ….

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and soci….

You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells, it thinks in touch sensations - litt….

You can be honest without sharing your opinions on everything..

In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength..