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I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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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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Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.
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Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.
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But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.
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I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.
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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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The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.
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People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.
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I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
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I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.
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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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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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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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The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous scientists and musicians. And we've got to work on strengths. We also have to work on teaching basic manners and skills.
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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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Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.
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When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.
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Just think about it yourself you don't want to put the [cat's] litter box down the basement because that's too far, on the other hand you don't want to put where everybody is traipsing in and out the back the door.
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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 feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists. There'd be no computer people. You'd lose a lot of artists and musicians. There'd be a horrible price to pay.
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