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In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes.
Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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