My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“My mind can always separate the two. Even when I am very upset, I keep reviewing the facts over and over until… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“I get great satisfaction out of doing clever things with my mind, but I don’t know what it is like to feel… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds.… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“When something is "all in your mind," people tend to think that it's willful, that it's something you could control if only… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
In the 50s and 60s, kids were taught how to shake hands. They were taught how to have manners. There needs to… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got to have soft kinds of cotton against… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
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… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are visual thinkers like me. Other kids are pattern thinkers - your mathematicians, your programmers. And there are others, they are word thinkers. Uneven skills. You need to take the thing that they're good at and you… — Temple Grandin Copy Share
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.' — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
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… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
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… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer? — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
