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There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.
Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.
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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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When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.
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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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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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People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.
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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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