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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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I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.
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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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The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.
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If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.
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These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.
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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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If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.
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I'm a believer in biochemistry. But I tell people to try only one thing at a time to see if it works. And if you do give a powerful drug to a kid, it better have a big wow factor.
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You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.
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When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.
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Animals make us Human.
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If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed.
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I'm seeing too many kind of socially awkward kids that get through schools and then they can't hold a job because they haven't learned the discipline of get up in the morning.
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I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.
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Autism is part of who I am.
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My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
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I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs to be painless.
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Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.
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Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.
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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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