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Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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Mary Temple Grandin
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People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.
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Autism is an extremely variable disorder.
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There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.
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A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad.
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You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.
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Animals make us Human.
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here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does.
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I'm seeing too many kind of socially awkward kids that get through schools and then they can't hold a job because they haven't learned the discipline of get up in the morning.
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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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People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
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One area of study that still needs to be done is the kind of autism where kids have speech and they lose it. Some parents say it's happened right after vaccines. That group needs to be studied separately from others.
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I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.
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People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?
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One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.
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Nature is cruel but we don't have to be
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I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.
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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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I am different, not less
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I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic, I get all light-headed unless I eat animal protein.
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I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.
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