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I'm pure geek, pure logic.

Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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Mary Temple Grandin
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What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.
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What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.
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Sometimes cats just avoid using a litter box but that [cat going poop outside the litter box but pees inside the litter box] is kind of strange. Most time people ask me why they go outside the litter box period.
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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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I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.
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we raise them for us that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. i'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right.
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When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.
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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'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.
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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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A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad.
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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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People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
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There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.
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It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death.
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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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The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous scientists and musicians. And we've got to work on strengths. We also have to work on teaching basic manners and skills.
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The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.
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Cats are great with clicker training. There's a great video you can get called Clicker Magic. There's a scene in that video where a cat is trained to go through a mini dog agility course - it's all done with food motivation and clicker training. You can train them to do all sorts of thing.
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I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.
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