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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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Boston
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Mary Temple Grandin
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What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.
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I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
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Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.
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Curiosity is the other side of caution.
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I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.
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Autism is part of who I am.
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The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.
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I feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists. There'd be no computer people. You'd lose a lot of artists and musicians. There'd be a horrible price to pay.
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There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.
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What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.
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When I was diagnosed, mothers were blamed for causing autism. There was no autism support. They'd put autistic kids in institutions. I had severe autism. But my mom wouldn't accept that. I was put in speech therapy. My mother was always pushing me to do stuff.
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Autism is an extremely variable disorder.
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If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.
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I can remember being bullied and teased. It was absolutely horrible. I got kicked out of ninth grade for throwing a book at a girl who teased me. It was absolutely terrible.
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The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.
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I'm a believer in biochemistry. But I tell people to try only one thing at a time to see if it works. And if you do give a powerful drug to a kid, it better have a big wow factor.
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People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.
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