Franz Kafka
Writer
"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."
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Autism
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Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us."
Jenny McCarthy
Actress, Model, Television Host
"Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform."
John Elder Robison
Author
"And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don'treally understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs."
Elizabeth Moon
Science Fiction Author
"Normal' is a dryer setting."
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"Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation."
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"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."
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"If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism."
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"I walk slowly, but never backwards."
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"I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover."
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"This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in."
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"Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the autism. Autism is a way of being. It is pervasive; it colors every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion and encounter - every aspect of existence. It is not possible to separate the autism from the person – and if it were possible, the person you'd have left would not be the same person you started with."
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"To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members."
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"Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality."
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"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."
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"I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis."
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"Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society."
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"This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces."
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"I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me."
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"As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism."
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"My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet."
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"Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment."
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"Vaccines are extremely well tested; their safety is well understood. The false allegations about vaccines causing autism have been disproven. But there are still echoes out there confusing people."
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"I read a lot on autism, which is surprisingly and annoyingly a huge mystery."
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"Though Autism can be frightening and terribly demanding, it also comes with its vast share of superpowers that are unknown to the typical human."
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