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Autism is an extremely variable disorder.
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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Curiosity is the other side of caution.
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I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.
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I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.
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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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You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.
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I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals and they can't explain how they do. They just get a feeling from the animal.
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I am a big believer in early intervention.
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I think there's some kids that need to go from being a child to being a grown-up. You get out in the tech communities, the parents just apprentice their kid into the industry and they just skip being a teenager.
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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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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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