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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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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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You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.
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Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get my words out. So the only way I could tell someone what I wanted was to scream. If I didn't want to wear a hat, the only way I knew to communicate was screaming and throwing it on the floor.
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Cats are great with clicker training. There's a great video you can get called Clicker Magic. There's a scene in that video where a cat is trained to go through a mini dog agility course - it's all done with food motivation and clicker training. You can train them to do all sorts of thing.
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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
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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'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.
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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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If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.
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I am a big believer in early intervention.
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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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The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.
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People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.
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Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.
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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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If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.
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I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at. Being with people who share your interests makes socializing easier.
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Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
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Sometimes cats just avoid using a litter box but that [cat going poop outside the litter box but pees inside the litter box] is kind of strange. Most time people ask me why they go outside the litter box period.
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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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