Autistic Quotations | Page 2

Autistic children have a hard time making friends. In Molly's case, her lack of speech doesn't help. We would be encouraging people to talk to her and pet her dog.

We're all a little nit autistic.

You're silly. Why are you doing that? Sensory is a key part of autism and it's extremely important to know if you're working with autistic children.

I'm not really that different. I don't really care about this autistic situation, really. It's just the way I am. The advice I'd give to autistic people is just keep working, just keep dreaming. You'll get your chance, and you'll do it.

Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as constricting as that hugging machine designed by autistic author Temple Grandin - then Boxing Day feels like a bar after last call when the lights have been turned up.

People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.

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.

I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.

The problem with an autistic kid is they absorb so much, but they can't bring it back out a lot. He's just like a little sponge. He knows what's going on. He doesn't always tell you he knows, but he knows. It's hard for some people to understand what his disabilities are. They just think he's quiet.

It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.