Golisano Autism Quotes

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- Bell Hooks ~ Win Quier

One of the hardest things for a person with autism to do is believe in themselves. But autistics have every right to be as proud as anyone. ~ Stuart Duncan

I like to know what's happening to prepare myself. I make up scenarios in my mind about what may happen. This helps me cope. ~ Tina J. Richardson

There are still so many unanswered questions about what causes autism and other developmental disorders on the spectrum. So it is vital that we continue to research and educate ourselves in the hopes that we may begin to understand the challenges that these children and their families continue to face with each passing day. ~ Manny Alvarez

So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it. We certainly have to try to figure out what causes it and why and do something about it. But to tab it to vaccines, I think, is a real mistake. Not only is there no evidence, but what it leads to is larger numbers of unvaccinated children. And that's not only a problem for polio. It's a problem for a wide range of vaccine-preventable diseases. ~ David Oshinsky

Autism is not the end of the World. . . just the beginning of a new one. ~ Sally Meyers

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting. ~ Tom Golisano

Everyday feels the same and yet I crave sameness.
Part of me wants to run away and be free.
I feel trapped in my life I've created to protect myself. ~ Tina J. Richardson

It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies. ~ Tom Golisano

Social media helps me a lot. It also causes a lot of shutdowns ~ Tina J. Richardson

For a while, every smart and shy eccentric from Bobby Fischer to Bill Gate was hastily fitted with this label, and many were more or less believably retrofitted, including Isaac Newton, Edgar Allen Pie, Michelangelo, and Virginia Woolf. Newton had great trouble forming friendships and probably remained celibate. In Poe's poem Alone, he wrote that "All I lov'd - I lov'd alone." Michelangelo is said to have written "I have no friends of any sort and I don't want any." Woolf killed herself.
Asperger's disorder, once considered a sub-type of autism, was named after the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger, a pioneer, in the 1940s, in identifying and describing autism. Unlike other early researchers, according to the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, Asperger felt that autistic people could have beneficial talents, especially what he called a "particular originality of thought" that was often beautiful and pure, unfiltered by culture of discretion, unafraid to grasp at extremely unconventional ideas. Nearly every autistic person that Sacks observed appeard happiest when alone. The word "autism" is derived from autos, the Greek word for "self."
"The cure for Asperger's syndrome is very simple," wrote Tony Attwood, a psychologist and Asperger's expert who lives in Australia. The solution is to leave the person alone. "You cannot have a social deficit when you are alone. You cannot have a communication problem when you are alone. All the diagnostic criteria dissolve in so ~ Michael Finkel

The aloof nature of autism leads to many misconceptions about the mind of individuals on the spectrum. Labeled as "being in a world of their own" is one of the absolute worst. Difficulty with communication and social interaction does not mean one is alien. Lack of eye contact does not mean they can't see. Wandering does not mean they are lost. ~ Liz Becker

When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan. ~ Adele Devine

But young parents, educated middle-class ones anyway, are very jumpy these days, they get so much information from the media about all the things that could be wrong with their child - autism, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, allergies, obesity and so on - they're in a constant state of panic, watching their offspring like hawks for warning signs. ~ David Lodge

As a child she was unique, she was a dreamer, she lived in her own world. Where it was safe. ~ Tina J. Richardson

Diagnosis (of autism) is such a clinical word to describe a moment in which your humanity is so deeply affirmed, understood, and valued. ~ Christopher Goodchild

For me the number one reason is that us people with autism love the greenness of nature.
... Our fondness for nature is, I think, a little bit different to everyone else's. I'm guessing that what touches you in nature is the beauty of the trees and the flowers and things. But to us people with special needs, nature is as important as our own lives. The reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world, and our entire bodies get recharged. However often, we're ignored and pushed away by other people, nature will always give us a good big hug, here inside our hearts.
The greenness of nature is the lives of plants and trees. Green is life. And that's the reason we love to go for walks. ~ Naoki Higashida

Know your own child's behaviors and look deeper to find their meaning. Be the expert for your child. Discover the wonderful. ~ Liz Becker

There is a lot of fuss about whether or not Asperger's is on the autism spectrum, but to be honest, it doesn't matter. It's a term we use to get Jacob the accommodations he needs in school, not a label to explain who he is ~ Jodi Picoult

I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary. ~ Temple Grandin

I'm not ignoring you, I just can't look at your eyes anymore. ~ Tina J. Richardson

Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to support families and individuals impacted by it. ~ Adrienne Bailon

I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling. ~ Temple Grandin

All my life, I have been working with children whose lives were destroyed because their mothers hated them.
1981 re: cause of autism ~ Bruno Bettelheim

Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations. ~ Tom Golisano

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less. ~ Tom Golisano

Before being a mental state of the schizophrenic who has made himself into an artificial person through autism, schizophrenia is the process of the production of desire and desiring-machines. ~ Gilles Deleuze

A rising tower of wood and needles and branches and great slabs of bark that has grown for hundreds of years. An impossible castle made from air and sunlight, fixed in place by the power of photosynthesis and chlorophyll. Magic. With lights. ~ Ned Hayes

If people treat you badly for being different it says so much more about what is lacking in them than what is lacking in you. ~ Jeanette Purkis

I will not allow anxiety dictate the terms of my life ~ Jeanette Purkis

I look at the sky and the dust that separates us from the stars that will be my home. I breathe in the night air, the rotten night air, and I miss,
I miss,
I miss. ~ Corinne Duyvis

Sometimes all a parent needs is to know the impossible is actually possible. Hope goes a long way when it comes to autism. Matt gives people hope. ~ Liz Becker

The problem is not my suitability as a partner, it's my suitability as a father. ~ Graeme Simsion

I've said many times that statistics reveal a surprising city: one that has more movie theaters than Paris, more abortions than London, more universities than New York. Where nighttime has become sparse, desolate, the kingdom of only a few. Where violence rules, corners us, silences us into a kind of autism. ~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II

I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is now two, and be absolutely paranoid, particularly because he loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and lots of autys love Thomas. But he is not very good at pointing, and autistic children absolutely love pointing. ~ Helena Bonham Carter

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child. ~ Jet Li

My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks. ~ Elizabeth Emken