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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.

Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
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I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.
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I think a brain can be made more thinking or made more emotional. At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.
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Fear was my main emotion until I started taking anti-depressant medication. And I was one of the people where, as I got older, the fear got worse and worse. So I can really relate to an animal getting, you know, scared and traumatized.
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People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.
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Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you know, Van Gogh. And at the other end of the spectrum, you got much more severe handicaps where they never learn to speak.
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Autism is part of who I am.
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If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.
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I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs to be painless.
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If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.
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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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When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.
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The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.
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I am a big believer in early intervention.
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You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.
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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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There is three different ways that autistic kids will interact with animals.And they also need to make sure that they're not getting too rough with their animals - they need to learn how to pet the dog properly, they can't be pulling its ears and things like that.
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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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The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.
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