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

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

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

The world needs all types of minds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

Many autistic children like to smell things, and smell may provide more reliable information about their surroundings than either vision or hearing.

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

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

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

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

I am a big believer in early intervention.

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

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

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

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

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

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

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.

My life is basically my work.

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

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

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

I like to figure things out and solve problems.

I was fascinated with optical illusions.

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

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.

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

The Mind of a Mnemonist

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

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

Dogs serve people, but people serve cats.

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

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

Autism is part of who I am.

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

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

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

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

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

It is human nature to strive.

Animals make us Human.

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

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

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

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

Neither living nor learning was good without order.

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

You can be honest without sharing your opinions on everything.

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

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

Curiosity is the other side of caution.

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

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.

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

I am different, not less.

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

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

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

There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

My Advice is: You always have to keep persevering.

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

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

DIFFERENT NOT LESS

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

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