“I see that dangerous look in your eyesYou're soul searchingBut is a soul really worth your whole life”

“If you are accepting of the belief that life can be good even with autism, then they will think so, too. You are the most important person in your child's life, and you can make them believe that anything is possible.”

“People with autism don't need wheelchairs, artifical legs, or a guide dog. Their prosthesis is people,' says Ruth Christ Sullivan, Ph.D., a founder of the Autism Society of America (ASA), and I could agree with her more. Having good direct support staff in your loved one's life is what makes the difference between a good life and a dismal one.”

“You don’t have any balls?’ For once I wasn’t trying to be insulting.”

“My problem wasn’t that he was a vamp, or that he was gay. I didn’t like him because he was a politician.”

“It is true that Jeremy could see "naked girls dancing" in strip clubs in San Diego, but parents reading this will appreciate that, since our loved ones on the spectrum tend to have obsessive tendencies, I was not about to tell Jeremy that. Obsessions with French fries I can deal with. Let him think he has to travel to Las Vegas to see naked girls dancing.”

“All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion”