Temple Grandin Quotes
Top 90 wise famous quotes and sayings by Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.
Children who are visual thinkers will often be good at drawing, other arts, and building things with building toys such as Legos.
Many autistic children like to smell things, and smell may provide more reliable information about their surroundings than either vision or hearing.
Intense stereotypies - stereotypies an animal spends hours a day doing - almost never occur in the wild,
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.
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.
People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.
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.
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.
Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.
People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'
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.
Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.
My thinking pattern always starts with specifics and works toward generalization in an associational and nonsequential way.
The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.
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.
In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.
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.