When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.

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?

No ethical person wants to be a king or a queen, because there is no ethics and honor in putting yourself in a place higher than others!

Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

His heart is kind and those big hands are soft. He speaks a language that can change what I believe.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

People naturally despise a dependant.