Temple Grandin Quotes - Page 9

The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.

Basically when it comes to autistic kids and animals there's kind of three ways that they work, some of them are instant best buddies, they understand a cat, they understand a dog - they're best studies with it, they just know how to communicate with it. Then there's other kids that begin with a little bit of fear of the cat or the dog, but then they begin to like it and then there are other kids where you have a sensory problem - the cat meows and it hurts their ears, so they want to stay away from the cat because you never know when he might meow.

I'm a big believer in getting kids involved in things where there's a shared interest because that's where they can have friends.

To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

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

There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.

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

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

You take somebody - one person has definitely got autism, you got another person that maybe has some of those traits and maybe there's some anxiety, depression, some epilepsy or something in the family history. Put them together, you're more likely to have a severely autistic kid than if you don't have any neurological problems in the family history.

Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.

In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes.

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

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

I've got a lot of other people who do a lot of things for me, so I've gotten to a part in my career where I'm doing a lot of talks because I want to get kids turned on. I want to see these kids, these geeky nerdy kids, go out there and do something.

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

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

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