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I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals and they can't explain how they do. They just get a feeling from the animal.
Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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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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I tend to be much more in the present and my emotions are simpler. I can be happy, I can be sad, I can be depressed, but there's a complexity that I don't have. I don't brood the same way. Fear is my main emotion.
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Autism is an extremely variable disorder.
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I'm pure geek, pure logic.
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Everything I think is in pictures.
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People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.
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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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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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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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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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I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.
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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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I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.
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Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.
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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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If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.
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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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I am a big believer in early intervention.
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