"Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated with some degree of intellectual disability, but the two core features of autism, I see, is impairments and social cognition, understanding and in restricted interests and repetitive behaviors."

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Source : "What is Autism?". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

Gerald Fischbach

#Epilepsy Quotes #Two Quotes #Autism Quotes

“Country music has the great stories.”
“Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.”
“My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.”

Source : "Surfer on the new wave" by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2001.
“One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.”
“I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.”
“It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead.”
“Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.”
“Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.”

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