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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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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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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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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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I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.
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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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I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.
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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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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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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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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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I'm a big believer in getting kids involved in things where there's a shared interest because that's where they can have friends.
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To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.
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