Parenting Quotes by Temple Grandin

13 Parenting quotes by Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin shares thirteen thoughtful reflections that draw on her unique perspective, offering practical, empathetic guidance for parents navigating neurodiversity and everyday challenges.

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I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me…

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I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt's ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to…

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It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is…

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I think there's some kids that need to go from being a child to being a grown-up. You get out in the…

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I look at the successful people that have, you know, high functioning autism and Asperger's, they're ones where maybe the parents were…

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

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I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one…

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When I was diagnosed, mothers were blamed for causing autism. There was no autism support. They'd put autistic kids in institutions. I…

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What parents and teachers and caregivers did with me that actually worked and a lot of that was the old fashion 50s…

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Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The…

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

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

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All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to…

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Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get…

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

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Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'

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Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be…

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Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

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

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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…

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“There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth”

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here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way…

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People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

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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…

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In a dog social cue from a master can override where he saw the being placed. That won’t happen unless we have bred a…

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Well the dog that is the most is the a Labrador retrievers because they tolerate kids tugging on them and things better than other…

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