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

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" I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt's ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to go for two weeks or all summer. I wound up staying all summer. And that's where I learned about cattle. I could relate to their behavior, their fears. "

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" I've worked with tons of people that I know who are on the spectrum - but now I think severe autism has really increased. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

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" When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior. "

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