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" Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs. "
Temple Grandin
Insurance
Care
Stop
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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. "
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Lot
Tech
You
" I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone. "
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Parents
Me
Good
" Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective. "
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Analysis
Most
Medical
" Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments. "
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Know
Parenting
Differences
" 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
Talk
Like
People
" My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. "
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Pilot
Engineer
Grandfather
" 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
Say
I Can
Remember
" I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring. "
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Information
Talking
Sail
" Autistic children are very difficult to take care of, especially severely autistic ones. When I was 4, I had almost no language; when I was 3, I had none at all. "
Temple Grandin
Children
Had
Language
" I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher. "
Temple Grandin
Enough
Good
Teacher
" Autism is an extremely variable disorder. "
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Disorder
Extremely
Variable
" My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. "
Temple Grandin
Pictures
Mind
Like
" We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world. "
Temple Grandin
World
Children
Work
" A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis. "
Temple Grandin
Children
Child
Early
" Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. "
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Mind
Me
Pictures
" I like to figure things out and solve problems. "
Temple Grandin
Out
Things
Problems
" I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of autism, and they make it impossible to operate in the environment where you're supposed to be social. "
Temple Grandin
Problem
Environment
Think
" Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies. "
Temple Grandin
Way
More
Research
" I was fascinated with optical illusions. "
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Optical
Fascinated
Illusions
" I am a big believer in early intervention. "
Temple Grandin
Am
Big
Intervention
" Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't think in a language, and animals don't think in a language. It's sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. It's putting these sensory based memories into categories. "
Temple Grandin
Animal
Memories
Think
" If I did not have my work, I would not have any life. "
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Any
Did
Life
" When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life. "
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Younger
Life
Looking
" My life is basically my work. "
Temple Grandin
Work
My Life
Life
" It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. "
Temple Grandin
Children
Picture
Important
" Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach. "
Temple Grandin
May
Some
Need
" And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit. "
Temple Grandin
Look
Subject
Need
" I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics. "
Temple Grandin
Music
Weather
Bad
" My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got to have soft kinds of cotton against my skin, and I don't know why some 100% cotton t-shirts itch and others don't; it has something to do with the weave. "
Temple Grandin
Clothes
Know
Problems
" When I was in high school and college, I thought everybody could think in pictures. And my first inkling to my thinking was even different was when I was in college and I read an article about, you know, some scientist said that the caveman could not have designed tools until they had language. "
Temple Grandin
School
College
Thinking