It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.