Autism Quotes

“I am convinced that the mercury in the vaccines is a major cause of autism.”

“I am not a doctor, but I am a parent, and I have a grandson who has autism, and I have met with thousands of parents of children with autism.”

“Advocacy is a marathon, not a sprint.”

“Autism has been a part of our lives since our son Ned was diagnosed.”

“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 socializing and not getting anything done.”

“My son's recovery is a miracle. I'm not a doctor. I'm a mom. I'm just a mother who's just sharing my story that I fixed my son.”

“My son, Daniel, was diagnosed with autism at age 2.”

“I am different, not less.”

“When you see a child with autism, you have seen one child with autism. Their journeys are as individual as they are.”

“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.”

“Parents get so worried about the deficits that they don't build on the strengths.”

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

“Social thinking is not my native language.”

“I looked at autism and I saw it as a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.”

“My mind is like a web browser. I have a lot of different windows open at the same time.”

“Fixating on stuff is normal for autistic people. And if you can take that fixation and expand it, you can turn it into a career.”