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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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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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I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.
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The reason why feral kitties are hard to tame is because they have missed socialization the period - you need to be touching and petting those kittens when they are real young.
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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.
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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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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
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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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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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Nature is cruel but we don't have to be
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The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.
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If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.
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I think there's some kids that need to go from being a child to being a grown-up. You get out in the tech communities, the parents just apprentice their kid into the industry and they just skip being a teenager.
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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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Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
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I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at. Being with people who share your interests makes socializing easier.
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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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Animals make us Human.
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You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.
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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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Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you know, Van Gogh. And at the other end of the spectrum, you got much more severe handicaps where they never learn to speak.
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