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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.
Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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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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Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.
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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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What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.
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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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I tend to be much more in the present and my emotions are simpler. I can be happy, I can be sad, I can be depressed, but there's a complexity that I don't have. I don't brood the same way. Fear is my main emotion.
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I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
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People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.
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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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There are three basic ways [to use a dog to work with autistic children], one is just to be companion person and I'm thinking now more of autistic kids not somebody in a wheelchair or the dog belongs to a therapist and then it's used as an ice breaker to get the kid talking and get the kid interacting.
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When kids are really little, they all look the same. No speech, no social relatedness, cannot emphasize enough the importance of early educational intervention.
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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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Nature is cruel but we don't have to be
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If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.
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From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.
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Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.
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If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed.
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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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When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.
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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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