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The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.
Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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Mary Temple Grandin
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Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.
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I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs to be painless.
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One of the things I want to do is be a decent role model. I've got a lot of emails and stuff from children. They look up to me. Kids get different labels and things like that and I want those kids to succeed.
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Autism is part of who I am.
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Fear was my main emotion until I started taking anti-depressant medication. And I was one of the people where, as I got older, the fear got worse and worse. So I can really relate to an animal getting, you know, scared and traumatized.
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Animals make us Human.
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You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.
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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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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
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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 know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.
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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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Cats are great with clicker training. There's a great video you can get called Clicker Magic. There's a scene in that video where a cat is trained to go through a mini dog agility course - it's all done with food motivation and clicker training. You can train them to do all sorts of thing.
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I am different, not less
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There is three different ways that autistic kids will interact with animals.And they also need to make sure that they're not getting too rough with their animals - they need to learn how to pet the dog properly, they can't be pulling its ears and things like that.
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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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What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.
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You have to get autistic kids out and expose them to things, but do this without any surprises, so they know what to expect. You have to find skilled mentors to teach them things. For me, it was an aunt, and it was my science teacher. You need to find the things they're interested in and good at and expand on this.
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I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.
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My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
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