Temple Grandin Quotes

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• I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at. Being with people…
• The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.
• It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.
• My Advice is: You always have to keep persevering.
• If I did not have my work, I would not have my life.
• Animals are like autistic savants. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that animals might actually be autistic savants. Animals have special talents…
• Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life.
• Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does…
• If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood…
• People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.
• We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my job. I wish…
• All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.
• Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.
• You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.
• As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren…
• There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.
• When I was younger I was looking for this magic meaning of life. It's very simple now. Making the lives of others better, doing something…
• The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.
• In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.
• You can be honest without sharing your opinions on everything.

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