Syndrome Quotes

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal.

I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.

Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place.

We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit.

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

Having Down syndrome means nothing to me, I'm special like everyone else.

I do not let people judge me for having Down syndrome. The important thing is how I feel about myself. On the inside, I feel beautiful.

It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."

When the anger is intense, the person with Asperger's syndrome may be in a 'blind rage' and unable to see the signals indicating that it would be appropriate to stop. Feelings of anger can also be in response in situations where we would expect other emotions. I have noted that sadness may be expressed as anger.

Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.

Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome.

You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.

'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home.

'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?' 'It's not unusual.'

Women are my biggest defenders. It's that bad-boy syndrome. Now girls chase me.

From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.

Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world.

I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.

Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome.

In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome.

Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.

Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.

My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, specifically). But there were certainly traits within that condition, within the autism spectrum in general, especially at the high functioning end, that I think are best looked at as pluses.

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.