Our autistic children will become autistic adults. As a mentor to younger kids on the spectrum, one question I get a lot is about positive role models who are also on the spectrum within our community. All of the quotes below are from autistic people. These quotes are also great for anyone who wants to share an autism-related quote on their social media pages for World Autism Month in April or World Autism Awareness Day on April 2. These quotes include…
Temple Grandin
“Kids have to be exposed to different things in order to develop. A child’s not going to find out he likes to play a musical instrument if you never exposed him to it…”
Stephen Shore
“If you’ve met one individual with autism, you’ve met one individual with autism.”
Kerry Magro
“Autism doesn’t come with an instruction guide. It comes with a family who will never give up.”
Erin McKinney
Our experiences are all unique. Regardless, I do believe that it is important to find the beautiful. Recognize that there is bad, there is ugly, there is disrespect, there is ignorance and there are meltdowns. Those things are inevitable. But there is also good. ~ Erin McKinney
Anthony Ianni
“At the end of the day, we don’t dream our lives…WE LIVE THEM!”
Amy Gravino
“I believe that inside every person who is bullied there is a strength and a tenacity to survive. You don’t always know that this strength exists, but if you make it through those dark times, you become aware. You become a survivor, someone whose courage and spirit is far stronger than all of the hate and cruelty of their bullies. The one thing that I want to impart to children with autism is knowledge of their own inner strength, and the belief that one day at a time, they, too, can get through this.”
Scott Lentine
Wanting to be free. Wanting to be me. Trying to make people see. And accept the real me.
Rachel Barcellona
Everyone has a mountain to climb and autism has not been my mountain, it has been my opportunity for victory.
Dani Bowman
“Anything Is possible! If I can do it, so can you!”
Haley Moss
I might hit developmental and societal milestones in a different order than my peers, but I am able to accomplish these small victories on my own time.
What quotes from people with autism would you add to this list?
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My name is Kerry Magro, a professional speaker and best-selling author who is also on the autism spectrum that started the nonprofit KFM Making a Difference in 2011 to help students with autism receive scholarship aid to pursue post-secondary education. Help support me so I can continue to help students with autism go to college by making a tax-deductible donation to our nonprofit here.
Autistics on Autism: Stories You Need to Hear About What Helped Them While Growing Up and Pursuing Their Dreams, has been released as of March 29, 2022 on Amazon here for our community to enjoy featuring the stories of 100 autistic adults. 100% of the proceeds from this book will go back to our nonprofit to support initiatives like our autism scholarship program. In addition, this autistic adult’s essay you just read will be featured in a future volume of this book as we plan on making this into a series of books on autistic adults.
