George Osborne Quotes

Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.

Autism doesn't seem to have a seasonal component, unlike some forms of depression.

Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others.

The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.

I've worked with tons of people that I know who are on the spectrum - but now I think severe autism has really increased.

Certainly not everybody that is different is necessarily autistic, but there are a lot of undiagnosed people, and it's not necessarily something that needs to have attention to it, unless that person is feeling uncomfortable in the world or they need extra help or something.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

My brother was diagnosed with autism at age 2. At the time, I was young, so I didn't really understand what it all meant. The doctors thought there was a possibility my brother wouldn't be able to speak - he was diagnosed on the severe end of the spectrum.

Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you know, Van Gogh. And at the other end of the spectrum, you got much more severe handicaps where they never learn to speak.

Relatively many autists are first-born children. There is also a pretty widespread conviction that the parents of autists are somehow different - for instance, many of them are very serious people or people who are themselves under some sort of strain.

What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs.

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.

My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, specifically). But there were certainly traits within that condition, within the autism spectrum in general, especially at the high functioning end, that I think are best looked at as pluses.

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time.

I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

What makes autism different is the history of neglect into the disorder. It's remained such a mystery that science has been very slow to address it.

I have a son, and my son has autism. There's certain things that I deal with that a lot of people don't deal with.

A diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome can be useful to help a person understand why they have had difficulties.

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

The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.