List of Temple Grandin Quotes

People Need To Learn How To Work, Learn How To Support Themselves. I Think It's Just Fine To Be Eccentric.

People Are Getting Too Far Away From The Real-world. Politics Is Just Ridiculous, It's Totally Dysfunctional.

I've Got A Lot Of Other People Who Do A Lot Of Things For Me, So I've Gotten To A Part In My Career Where I'm Doing A Lot Of Talks Because I Want To Get Kids Turned On. I Want To See These Kids, These Geeky Nerdy Kids, Go Out There And Do Something.

What Do I Do When I Go Home? Work. That's Basically My Social Life. I'm Married To Work.

I'm Seeing Too Many Geeky, Nerdy Kids Get Addicted To Video Games And They're Going Nowhere. It's Making Me Crazy.

I Think That The Definition Of Autism Is Too Broad. You Got To Remember, Autism Definition Is A Behavioral Profiling.

You Take Somebody - One Person Has Definitely Got Autism, You Got Another Person That Maybe Has Some Of Those Traits And Maybe There's Some Anxiety, Depression, Some Epilepsy Or Something In The Family History. Put Them Together, You're More Likely To Have A Severely Autistic Kid Than If You Don't Have Any Neurological Problems In The Family History.

People On The Autistic Spectrum Tend To Get Fixated On What They Think.

One Of The Places Where Research Is Needed Is All The Sensory Problems. And You Get Sensory Problems Not Just With Autism, But With Dyslexia, Learning Problems, Adhd, Attention Deficit, You Know, Things Like Sound Sensitivity, Problems With Fluorescent Lighting.

In Fact, There Are Autism Clusters, You Know, Around Some Of The Big Tech Centers. You Take Two Socially Awkward Computer Programmers And Put Them Together, That Can Kind Of Concentrate The Autistic Genes.

When I Was Younger, I Didn't Even Realize The Way I Think Visually Is Different.

Autism's A Very Big Spectrum. At One End Of The Spectrum, Einstein Would Probably Be Labeled Autistic, Steve Jobs, Half Of Silicon Valley, You Know, Van Gogh. And At The Other End Of The Spectrum, You Got Much More Severe Handicaps Where They Never Learn To Speak.