Psychology Quotes by Temple Grandin

13 Psychology quotes by Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin shares thirteen observations that illuminate how sensory experience shapes thought. Her practical, experience‑driven lens offers a fresh angle on understanding the brain’s processing patterns.

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Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

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My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures.

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My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.

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I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

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The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

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It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.

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“My mind can always separate the two. Even when I am very upset, I keep reviewing the facts over and over until…

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“I get great satisfaction out of doing clever things with my mind, but I don’t know what it is like to feel…

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My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates…

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Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment…

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I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds.…

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In the 50s and 60s, kids were taught how to shake hands. They were taught how to have manners. There needs to…

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“When something is "all in your mind," people tend to think that it's willful, that it's something you could control if only…

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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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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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