#autism

When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autism #behavior #blood #blood pressure #changes

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 of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.' ↗

— Temple Grandin

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Autism is an extremely variable disorder. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#disorder #extremely #variable

There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autism #centers #concentrate #concentrating #geeks

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

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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