“Patience. Patience. Patience. Work to view my autism as a different ability rather than a disability. Look past what you may see as limitations and see the gifts autism has given me. It may be true that I’m not good at eye contact or conversation, but have you noticed that I don’t lie, cheat at games, tattle on my classmates or pass judgment on other people? Also true that I probably won’t be the next Michael Jordan. But with my attention to fine detail and capacity for extraordinary focus, I might be the next Einstein. Or Mozart. Or Van Gogh.”
-Ellen Notbohm, author of Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew

 

“If you know one person with autism; you know one person with autism.”

 

“Not everything that steps out of line, and thus ‘abnormal’, must necessarily be ‘inferior’”
- Hans Asperger (1938)

 

“Not being able to speak is not the same as not having something to say.”