#autism

We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#autism #causing #children #collectively #continue

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. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#autism #children #measles #parents #percent

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#autism #details #intuition #nerd #nerdiness

Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist. ↗

— Eileen Miller

#asd #autism #outsider-art #art

In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity... No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism. ↗

— Eileen Miller

#asd #autism #outsider-art #art

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

I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why the planets spin. ↗

— Jerry Newport

#life

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#psychology #society #life

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