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Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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Boston
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Mary Temple Grandin
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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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here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does.
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I am different, not less
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I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic, I get all light-headed unless I eat animal protein.
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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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I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.
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You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.
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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 can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.
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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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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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The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.
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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 can remember being bullied and teased. It was absolutely horrible. I got kicked out of ninth grade for throwing a book at a girl who teased me. It was absolutely terrible.
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Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life.
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I'm seeing too many kind of socially awkward kids that get through schools and then they can't hold a job because they haven't learned the discipline of get up in the morning.
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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 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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The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.
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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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