#autism

Education is that component which brings in a meaningful relationship between the happenings around us and how our senses experience them. ↗

— Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

#education #meaning #meaningful #relationship #education

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. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autism #socialism

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#intellectual-sophistication #internet #irony #nerd #nerdery

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

#become #children #dialogue #effect #factors

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

#bed #gets #greatest #greatest thing #hope

I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#along #autism #doctor #doctors #god

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

#after #any #autism #because #been

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

#cause #crackpot #idea #matches #might

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

— Jenny McCarthy

#give #polio #safe #us #use

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#coverage #education #education reform #epidemic #funding