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I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.

Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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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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If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.
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In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes.
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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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When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.
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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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People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
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The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous scientists and musicians. And we've got to work on strengths. We also have to work on teaching basic manners and skills.
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There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.
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Autism is part of who I am.
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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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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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Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
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The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.
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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.
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I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.
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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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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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When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.
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