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" 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. "
Temple Grandin
Need
World
Seeing
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" I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary. "
Temple Grandin
Always
Thought
First
" Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. "
Temple Grandin
Mind
Me
Pictures
" Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices. "
Temple Grandin
Me
Children
Problems
" As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment. "
Temple Grandin
Environment
Children
Animals
" 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 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
" I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me. "
Temple Grandin
Mother
Me
Science
" I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world. "
Temple Grandin
Divide
Like
Personal
" I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher. "
Temple Grandin
Enough
Good
Teacher
" The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior. "
Temple Grandin
Behavior
Better
Help
" I use my mind to solve problems and invent things. "
Temple Grandin
Things
Solve
Mind
" Autism is part of who I am. "
Temple Grandin
I Am
Who
Autism
" And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit. "
Temple Grandin
Look
Subject
Need
" 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
" Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective. "
Temple Grandin
Analysis
Most
Medical
" Pressure is calming to the nervous system. "
Temple Grandin
System
Nervous
Pressure
" Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get my words out. So the only way I could tell someone what I wanted was to scream. If I didn't want to wear a hat, the only way I knew to communicate was screaming and throwing it on the floor. "
Temple Grandin
Language
Way
Words
" My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. "
Temple Grandin
Pictures
Mind
Like
" I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds. "
Temple Grandin
Words
Problems
Thought
" 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
" One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection. "
Temple Grandin
Here
Big
Think
" The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play. "
Temple Grandin
You
Always
Keep
" 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 would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants. "
Temple Grandin
Now
Would
Did
" 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. "
Temple Grandin
Child
Research
Teacher
" Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it. "
Temple Grandin
Just
Working
Teachers
" 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. "
Temple Grandin
Parents
Me
Good
" I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images. "
Temple Grandin
Google
Brain
Visual
" 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
" 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. "
Temple Grandin
Know
Parenting
Differences