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When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.
Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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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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I'm pure geek, pure logic.
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People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.
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Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
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In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes.
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We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats.
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The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.
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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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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 don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a real job.
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Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.
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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
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There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.
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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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I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.
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One area of study that still needs to be done is the kind of autism where kids have speech and they lose it. Some parents say it's happened right after vaccines. That group needs to be studied separately from others.
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People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?
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If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.
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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 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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