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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.
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Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.
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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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I think a brain can be made more thinking or made more emotional. At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.
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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 dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.
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I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.
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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 know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.
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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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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 world needs different kinds of minds to work together.
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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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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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What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.
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A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad.
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I am a big believer in early intervention.
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I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.
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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 wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.
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