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One area of study that still needs to be done is the kind of autism where kids have speech and they lose it. Some parents say it's happened right after vaccines. That group needs to be studied separately from others.
Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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