#autism

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

Autism is a very serious condition. ↗

— George Osborne

#condition #serious #very

How very scared I was of everything, and in the end how very scared I was of her. This woman I knew, and did not know, and loved. ↗

— James Christie

#autism #buffy-the-vampire-slayer #drusilla #juliet-landau #rain-man

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury ↗

— T.K. Thorne

#aspergers #autism #historical-fiction #historical-fiction

The reactions of the many should not affect the actions of the few. ↗

— Joey Lawsin

#inspirational-life-quotes #inspirational

You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are. ↗

— Matthew Dicks

#bravery #inspirational #inspirational

Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they'll tell you stories of dozens of kids in their practice who no longer have autism. Ask them to speak to the press and they'll run for the door. They know better. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#autism #better #corner #doctors #door

I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#intelligence #iq #nerd #nerdiness #nerds

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 behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autism #oliver-sacks #life

Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg. ↗

— Paul Collins

#individuality #hard-work