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When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills. — Temple Grandin

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

Autism is an extremely variable disorder. — Temple Grandin

The world needs all types of minds. — Temple Grandin

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet. — Temple Grandin

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it. — Temple Grandin

There's a saying in engineering: You can build things cheap, fast, or right, but not all three. — Temple Grandin

[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity. — Temple Grandin

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

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

People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think. — Temple Grandin

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

Children who are visual thinkers will often be good at drawing, other arts, and building things with building toys such as Legos. — Temple Grandin

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect. — 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

You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid. — Temple Grandin

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

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. — Temple Grandin

Intense stereotypies - stereotypies an animal spends hours a day doing - almost never occur in the wild, — Temple Grandin

I am a big believer in early intervention. — Temple Grandin

People wouldn't have become who we are today if we hadn't coevolved with dogs. — Temple Grandin

There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers ... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics. — Temple Grandin

The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior. — Temple Grandin

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit. — Temple Grandin

I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac. — Temple Grandin

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together. — Temple Grandin

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills. — Temple Grandin

My life is basically my work. — Temple Grandin

If I did not have my work, I would not have any life. — Temple Grandin

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional. — Temple Grandin

You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload. — Temple Grandin

I like to figure things out and solve problems. — Temple Grandin

I was fascinated with optical illusions. — Temple Grandin

Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach. — Temple Grandin

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. — Temple Grandin

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things. — Temple Grandin

The Mind of a Mnemonist — Temple Grandin

I was expected to sit at the table, learn how to eat properly. — Temple Grandin

Pressure is calming to the nervous system. — Temple Grandin

Dogs serve people, but people serve cats. — Temple Grandin

Animals like novelty if they can choose to investigate it; they fear novelty if you shove it in their faces. — Temple Grandin

I'm seeing too many geeky, nerdy kids get addicted to video games and they're going nowhere. It's making me crazy. — Temple Grandin

Autism is part of who I am. — Temple Grandin

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

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective. — Temple Grandin

Teachers who work with autistic children need to understand associative thought patterns. — Temple Grandin

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things. — Temple Grandin

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

It is human nature to strive. — Temple Grandin

Animals make us Human. — Temple Grandin

If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am. — Temple Grandin

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric. — Temple Grandin

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do. — Temple Grandin

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. — Temple Grandin

Neither living nor learning was good without order. — Temple Grandin

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

You can be honest without sharing your opinions on everything. — Temple Grandin

Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard. — Temple Grandin

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

Curiosity is the other side of caution. — Temple Grandin

I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism. — Temple Grandin

My mind can always separate the two. Even when I am very upset, I keep reviewing the facts over and over until I can come to a logical conclusion. — Temple Grandin

It's OK to be an eccentric; it's not OK to be a rude and dirty eccentric. — Temple Grandin

I am different, not less. — Temple Grandin

Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs. — Temple Grandin

When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life. — Temple Grandin

My thinking pattern always starts with specifics and works toward generalization in an associational and nonsequential way. — Temple Grandin

There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth — Temple Grandin

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work. — Temple Grandin

In a noisy place I can't understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise. — Temple Grandin

Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be. — Temple Grandin

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

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream. — Temple Grandin

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world. — Temple Grandin

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label. — Temple Grandin

I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants. — Temple Grandin

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

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior. — Temple Grandin

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff. — Temple Grandin

I've worked with tons of people that I know who are on the spectrum - but now I think severe autism has really increased. — Temple Grandin

I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary. — Temple Grandin

From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder. — Temple Grandin

The Internet may be the best thing yet for improving an autistic person's social life. — Temple Grandin

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

My Advice is: You always have to keep persevering. — Temple Grandin

When I was younger, I didn't even realize the way I think visually is different. — Temple Grandin

I'd rather see a kid get fixated on something they can turn into a career. — Temple Grandin

DIFFERENT NOT LESS — Temple Grandin

I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling. — Temple Grandin

The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism) — Temple Grandin