Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

I usually have my protein at lunch and my carbs at night - I don't mix protein and carbs.

My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.

Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns.

I figured out something spiritual. Billboard this: 'Life is supposed to be fun!'

I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

I'm the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.

I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat safe. But it's still a big vice for me, because I have a big bowl of it.

The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the US vaccine schedule.

My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.

A desire to choose the hardest might be a confession of weakness in itself.

The way he’s watching me makes me feel needed like no one’s ever been able to make me feel. In a way, he makes me feel necessary. Like my existence alone is necessary for his survival.

We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.

But how could anyone be grateful for what they have if they didn’t know what it was like not to have what they need?

Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state.

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.