I'd rather see a kid get fixated on something they can turn into a career.

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

I am different, not less

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me.

Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.

I like the big questions.

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real friends.

Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.