...a way of being...

Saying you "have" something implies that it's temporary and undesirable. Asperger's isn't like that. You've been Aspergian as long as you can remember, and you'll be that way all your life. It's a way of being, not a disease.

~John Elder Robison

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...the imagined child...

“By separating the autism from the person, are we encouraging our patients’ family members to love an imagined nonautistic child that was never born, forgetting about the real person who exists in front of us."

~ Christina Nicolaidis, A Physician Speaks

...a difference to be worked with...

“Autism is really more of a difference to be worked with rather than a monolithic enemy that needs to be slain or destroyed.”

~ Stephen Shore, PhD

...no cure for being human...

“There is no cure for being human.”

~ Cheri Rauser, mom to Isabell