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What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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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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If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.
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Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.
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The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.
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Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices.
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If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.
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There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They can do calendar calculations. And this is similar to some of the skills that animals have.
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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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People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
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From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.
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To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.
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I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.
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Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.
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we raise them for us that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. i'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right.
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I think there's some kids that need to go from being a child to being a grown-up. You get out in the tech communities, the parents just apprentice their kid into the industry and they just skip being a teenager.
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It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing.
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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 autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.
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When I was diagnosed, mothers were blamed for causing autism. There was no autism support. They'd put autistic kids in institutions. I had severe autism. But my mom wouldn't accept that. I was put in speech therapy. My mother was always pushing me to do stuff.
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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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