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Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.

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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.
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Just think about it yourself you don't want to put the [cat's] litter box down the basement because that's too far, on the other hand you don't want to put where everybody is traipsing in and out the back the door.
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I feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists. There'd be no computer people. You'd lose a lot of artists and musicians. There'd be a horrible price to pay.
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I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.
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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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If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.
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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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As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.
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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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I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.
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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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People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.
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Curiosity is the other side of caution.
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When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.
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People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.
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Autism is part of who I am.
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