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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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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.
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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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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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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 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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The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.
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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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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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You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.
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Nature is cruel but we don't have to be
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My life - autism's an important part of it, but it bothers me when I see kids where autism and their autism is the only thing they think about. I'd rather have them think about, you know, some art work they were gonna do or some science they wanted to do.
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The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.
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I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.
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To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.
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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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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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The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.
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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'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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