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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.

Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.
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There is three different ways that autistic kids will interact with animals.And they also need to make sure that they're not getting too rough with their animals - they need to learn how to pet the dog properly, they can't be pulling its ears and things like that.
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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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My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
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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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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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There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.
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I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.
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Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
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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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When kids are really little, they all look the same. No speech, no social relatedness, cannot emphasize enough the importance of early educational intervention.
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There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.
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I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
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I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.
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I feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists. There'd be no computer people. You'd lose a lot of artists and musicians. There'd be a horrible price to pay.
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One of the things I want to do is be a decent role model. I've got a lot of emails and stuff from children. They look up to me. Kids get different labels and things like that and I want those kids to succeed.
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Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.
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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
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Curiosity is the other side of caution.
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The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.
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