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In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength. (Temple Grandin)
Dogs serve people, but people serve cats. View quote
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All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain. View quote
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I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation. View quote
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It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death. View quote
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One of the things I want to do is be a decent role model. I've got a lot of emails and stuff from children. They look up to me. Kids get different labels and things like that and I want those kids to succeed. View quote
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I'd rather see a kid get fixated on something they can turn into a career. View quote
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I can remember being bullied and teased. It was absolutely horrible. I got kicked out of ninth grade for throwing a book at a girl who teased me. It was absolutely terrible. View quote
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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. View quote
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Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions. View quote
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When kids are really little, they all look the same. No speech, no social relatedness, cannot emphasize enough the importance of early educational intervention. (Temple Grandin)
I'm seeing too many kind of socially awkward kids that get through schools and then they can't hold a job because they haven't learned the discipline of get up in the morning. View quote
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I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career. View quote
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There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics. View quote
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You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload. View quote
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Medication should never be considered the only tool for helping a person. View quote
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Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior. View quote
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My Advice is: You always have to keep persevering. View quote
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I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs to be painless. View quote
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Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people. View quote
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Seeking is a combination of emotions people usually think of as being different: wanting something really good, looking forward to getting something really good and curiosity. Seeking gives you the energy to go after your goals. (Temple Grandin)
Fear was my main emotion until I started taking anti-depressant medication. And I was one of the people where, as I got older, the fear got worse and worse. So I can really relate to an animal getting, you know, scared and traumatized. View quote
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The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else. View quote
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You get these fear memories that are hard to undo. View quote
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I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals; and they can't explain how they do. They just get a feeling from the animal. View quote
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