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The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.
Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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I'm a big believer in getting kids involved in things where there's a shared interest because that's where they can have friends.
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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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I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.
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The reason why feral kitties are hard to tame is because they have missed socialization the period - you need to be touching and petting those kittens when they are real young.
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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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I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.
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Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.
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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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I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?
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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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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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There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.
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Autism is part of who I am.
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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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One of the things I want to do is be a decent role model. I've got a lot of emails and stuff from children. They look up to me. Kids get different labels and things like that and I want those kids to succeed.
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I tend to be much more in the present and my emotions are simpler. I can be happy, I can be sad, I can be depressed, but there's a complexity that I don't have. I don't brood the same way. Fear is my main emotion.
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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 believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.
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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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I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.
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