Temple Grandin

I am different, not less

— Temple Grandin

Autism is part of who I am.

— Temple Grandin

I'm pure geek, pure logic.

— Temple Grandin

Everything I think is in pictures.

— Temple Grandin

Animals make us Human.

— Temple Grandin

Curiosity is the other side of caution.

— Temple Grandin

“DIFFERENT NOT LESS”

— Temple Grandin

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

— Temple Grandin

Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

— Temple Grandin

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

— Temple Grandin

I am a big believer in early intervention.

— Temple Grandin

Medication should never be considered the only tool for helping a person.

— Temple Grandin

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

— Temple Grandin

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

— Temple Grandin

I was fascinated with optical illusions.

— Temple Grandin

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

— Temple Grandin

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

— Temple Grandin

What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.

— Temple Grandin

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that…

— Temple Grandin

You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.

— Temple Grandin

“Many autistic children like to smell things, and smell may provide more reliable information about their surroundings than either vision or hearing.”

— Temple Grandin

“In a noisy place I can’t understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.”

— Temple Grandin

Things like microphones are dangerous things because you never know when they might feedback and squeal.

— Temple Grandin

In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

— Temple Grandin

There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire…

— Temple Grandin

In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers…

— Temple Grandin

I'm a believer in biochemistry. But I tell people to try only one thing at a time to see if it works.…

— Temple Grandin

Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't think in a language, and animals…

— Temple Grandin

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to…

— Temple Grandin

“In dealing with autism, I'm certainly not saying we should lose sight of the need to work on deficits, But the focus…

— Temple Grandin

I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up…

— Temple Grandin

These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over…

— Temple Grandin

Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some…

— Temple Grandin

How do you have a think in pictures? Well, you have to sort the pictures into categories. You know, for example, a…

— Temple Grandin

“Boys who cry can work for Google. Boys who trash computers cannot. I once was at a science conference, and I saw…

— Temple Grandin

If you have a 2-year-old who is non-verbal, don't wait until you get a diagnosis at 4. The child needs one-on-one teaching…

— Temple Grandin

My mother was always expanding my art skills and getting me to paint different things. You always got to push some. And,…

— Temple Grandin

It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to…

— Temple Grandin

For example, if ears are back on a horse, it's obviously not very happy. And the eyes show that it's not happy.…

— Temple Grandin

We breed dogs to be more social than the wolf. There is very interesting research that has been done with a wolf…

— Temple Grandin