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Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.
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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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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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I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.
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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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The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.
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We found if you took the dog out for 45 minutes a day and worked with it that the solitary stress hormone, cortisol, went down. But then it went right back up again because they didn't keep doing it.
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People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
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A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
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Animals make us Human.
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The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.
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Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.
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There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.
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The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.
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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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One of the big areas I'd like to see a lot more research done on is the sensory problems, and it's real variable. One kid's got sound sensitivity another one can't tolerate fluorescent lights. I can't stand scratchy clothes.
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I am different, not less
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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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A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad.
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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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