People on the autism spectrum don't think the same way you do. In my life, people who made a difference were those who didn't see labels, who believed in building on what was there. These were people who didn't try to drag me into their world, but came into mine instead.

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

Curiosity is the other side of caution.

Whereas an elephant that was scared to death that diesel powered equipment, equipment that ran on a gas engine, was just fine. Because somebody had attacked it with construction equipment. But if it had a diesel engine, it was bad.

All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

I am different, not less

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.