Jasika Nicole Quotes

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

Autism is a very serious condition.

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

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

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 sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

Mom worked with autistic children.

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.

Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really hard for them, but it can happen.

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.

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

I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

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.

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

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

Autistic people's disabilities are widely known, but one of their best-established strengths is their attention to detail.

Sometimes, it's hard for me to communicate my discomfort because I want to be respectful. At the same time, I've learned that you have to ask people on your team to help you out.

So my dyslexia has got me into trouble, but I feel I can talk about it because I want to say to everyone who is dyslexic that the technology exists to help. The most important thing was being diagnosed.

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.

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.

Together, we’ll beat autism.

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

Having two children with autism, it makes you really think about how we do relate to each other.