{"quotes":[{"text":"I also have a list of favorite noises. It has one item on it: Kit's laugh.","author":"Julie Buxbaum","tags":["autism","high-school","romance"],"id":7303,"author_id":"Julie+Buxbaum"},{"text":"So strange that David Drucker of all people was the only one who said the exact right thing: Your dad shouldn't have died. That's really unfair.","author":"Julie Buxbaum","tags":["autism","friendship","grief","high-school"],"id":8803,"author_id":"Julie+Buxbaum"},{"text":"We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful resources and symbols that make sense. If a picture does not explain visually, it is pointless and the child will stop looking to the pictures for information.","author":"Adele Devine","tags":["autism","information","pictures","symbols","visual"],"id":13212,"author_id":"Adele+Devine"},{"text":"[Patricia Highsmith] was an extremely unbalanced person, extremely hostile and misanthropic and totally incapable of any kind of relationship, not just intimate ones. I felt sorry for her, because it wasn't her fault. There was something in her early days or whatever that made her incapable. She drove everybody away and people who really wanted to be friends ended up putting the phone down on her.It seemed to me as if she had to ape feelings and behaviour, like Ripley. Of course sometimes having no sense of social behaviour can be charming, but in her case it was alarming. I remember once, when she was trying to have a dinner party with people she barely knew, she deliberately leaned towards the candle on the table and set fire to her hair. People didn't know what to do as it was a very hostile act and the smell of singeing and burning filled the room.","author":"Andrew Wilson","tags":["alarming","ape","asperger-s","aspergers","aspergers-syndrome","autism","behaviour","burning","charm","charming","dinner-party","fault","feelings","fire","hostile","incapable","intimacy","misanthropic","misanthropy","people","relationship","singeing","social-behaviour","unbalanced"],"id":13973,"author_id":"Andrew+Wilson"},{"text":"The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers.","author":"Elizabeth Emken","tags":["genetics","real","autism "],"id":15810,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Emken"},{"text":"You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.","author":"Will Rogers","tags":["autism","memoir","nonfiction","writing"],"id":18851,"author_id":"Will+Rogers"},{"text":"What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs.","author":"Thomas R. Insel","tags":["know","single","autism "],"id":24021,"author_id":"Thomas+R.+Insel"},{"text":"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.","author":"Paul Collins","tags":["autism","individuality"],"id":26163,"author_id":"Paul+Collins"},{"text":"Old memories are always there. Like they happened yesterday.","author":"TinaJ. Richardson","tags":["autism","memory"],"id":41494,"author_id":"TinaJ.+Richardson"},{"text":"I don't have to look at your eyes to listen that's whatmy ears are for.","author":"Tina J. Richardson","tags":["autism","communication","eye-contact"],"id":49192,"author_id":"Tina+J.+Richardson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":146,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}