Temple Grandin Quotes

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Temple Grandin

Profession : Educator

Birth : August 29, 1947

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

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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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Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

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I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants.

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I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

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And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

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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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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.

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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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We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

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I like to figure things out and solve problems.

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I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

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My life is basically my work.

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If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.

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Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

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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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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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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.

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The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

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I was expected to sit at the table, learn how to eat properly.

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