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" I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac. "
Temple Grandin
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" When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life. "
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" People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect. "
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" 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. "
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" The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things. "
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People
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" I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary. "
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Thought
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" There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label. "
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" 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 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. "
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Me
Children
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. "
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Environment
Think
" 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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Me
Good
" What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world. "
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World
Research
Like
" My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures. "
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You
Start
" My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. "
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Engineer
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" Autism is an extremely variable disorder. "
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Disorder
Extremely
Variable
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Music
Weather
Bad
" I've worked with tons of people that I know who are on the spectrum - but now I think severe autism has really increased. "
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Autism
Now
People
" I was fascinated with optical illusions. "
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Optical
Fascinated
Illusions
" 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. "
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" Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation. "
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School
Good
" 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. "
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Clothes
Know
Problems
" I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world. "
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Divide
Like
Personal
" One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears. "
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Dentist
Hurt
Bell
" I was expected to sit at the table, learn how to eat properly. "
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Eat
Expected
Table
" Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.' "
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Science
Art
End
" I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits. "
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Think
Brain