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" When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life. "

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" Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices. "

" It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. "

" My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures. "

" When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior. "

" From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder. "

" If I did not have my work, I would not have any life. "

" I like to figure things out and solve problems. "

" There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label. "

" The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things. "

" If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. "

" Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach. "

" Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it. "

" Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection. "

" My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. "

" Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley. "

" I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt's ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to go for two weeks or all summer. I wound up staying all summer. And that's where I learned about cattle. I could relate to their behavior, their fears. "

" I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary. "

" People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet. "

" Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. "

" One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears. "

" Autism is an extremely variable disorder. "

" I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone. "

" I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac. "

" Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't think in a language, and animals don't think in a language. It's sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. It's putting these sensory based memories into categories. "

" I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff. "