...stare, don't stare...make up your mind...

"I don't really understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs"

~John Elder Robison

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...creative solutions...

"When living with a neurological condition (or with a loved one who has one), it can be very easy to focus on the challenges and limitations.  But in my life, I have found that focusing on abilities, finding new ways to adapt, have been crucial to my successes in life. Seeking those solutions can even be seen as a form of creativity."

~Lynn Soraya

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...there is no epidemic...

"As the diagnosis of autism is increasing the diagnosis of mental retardation is decreasing. And more and more on the other end, the high end, more children who are just a little bit off, who ordinarily you would not single out now are being described as perhaps Asperger's syndrome or on the high end of the autism spectrum, so I don't believe there is an epidemic."

~Gerald Fischbach

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...different, not defective...

"From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking."

~Tony Attwood

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...measuring the success of our societies...

“To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members."

~ Ban Ki-Moon, Former United Nations Secretary-General

...the movement of rivers and stars...

“We contain the shapes of trees and the movement of rivers and stars within us."

~ Patrick Jasper Lee

...the reason I'm successful...

“My autism is the reason I’m in college and successful. It’s the reason I’m good in math and science. It’s the reason I care."

~ Jacob Barnett, sixteen-year old math and physics prodigy

...travelers from the distant past...

“Although people with autism look like other people physically, we are in fact very different…We are more like travelers from the distant, distant past. And if, by our being here, we could help the people of the world remember what truly matters for the Earth, that might give us quiet pleasure."

~ Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump

...diversity of the human gene pool...

“Autism is here to stay and may be considered a part of the diversity of the human gene pool."

~ Dr. Stephen Shore

...our duty is...

“Our duty in autism is not to cure but to relieve suffering and to maximize each person's potential.”

~ John Elder Robison

Autism Acceptance Month: 10 Autism Myths That Need to Be Retired

April is Autism Acceptance Month, a time used to educate people about autism in hopes of fostering greater understanding and advocacy. If you have heard of this observed "holiday" but know it by the title Autism "Awareness" Month, you are not alone. It has only been recently that this has changed. This has a lot to do with the myths that pervade autism and the lives of autistic people. But times they definitely are a-changing.

A Quick & Utterly Incomplete History

In the past, Autism education was, sadly, tantamount to spreading fear...fear of what autism is, where it comes from, how it was ruining our society, and how to eliminate it from the population. This shouldn't really come as a surprise. The majority of the population did not know that autism exists until well into the 1990s. I certainly didn't.