Es scheint uns, als wäre für wissenschaftliche oder künstlerische Höchstleistungen ein Schuss Autismus geradezu notwendig.

“It seems that for scientific or artistic excellence a dash of autism is needed.”

Hans Asperger

I think in the future some of our major problems will be solved by people with asperger's.

Tony Attwood

I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way — I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

Garry Numan

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.

Temple Grandin

I do not suffer from Asperger's, I suffer from people

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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible

Frank Zappa

The teacher has to become autistic.

Hans Asperger

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.

Temple Grandin

In special education there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

Temple Grandin

I'm different, not less.

Temple Grandin

You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.

Matthew Dicks

Social awkwardness is not a crime.

Idir Aitsahalia

My room is the safest place my body has. My mind doesn’t really have a safe place.

Anna Whateley

Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.

Paul Collins

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Dr. Seuss

Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

Alan Turing

There is no cure for being human.

Cheri Rauser

I know of nobody who is purely autistic or purely neurotypical. Even God had some autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin.

Jerry Newport

Even for parents of children who are not on the spectrum, there is no such thing as a normal child.

Violet Stevens

[So-called] mild autism doesn't mean one experiences autism mildly ... It means YOU experience their autism mildly. You may not know how hard they’ve had to work to get to the level they are.

Adam Walton

The Internet may be the best thing yet for improving an autistic person's social life.

Temple Grandin

What, after all, is normality? Given that there is an enormous range of social behavior with many degrees of adaptation and success or failure in the normal population, where does normality end and abnormality begin? Should one instead talk about normal and abnormal shading into each other? To put it another way, should one look at Asperger’s syndrome as a normal personality variant?

Uta Frith