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People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.
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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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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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When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.
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I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
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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 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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I don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a real job.
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The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.
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