temple-grandin Quotes About autistic

“In dealing with autism, I'm certainly not saying we should lose sight of the need to work on deficits, But the focus on deficits is so intense and so automatic that people lose sight of the strengths.”

Autistic

Book:The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

Source: The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

“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.'”

People Ifs Want Giving Art Ends Social Genius Bunch Autism Severe Spectrum Genetics Autistic Nonverbal Yaks

Author:Temple Grandin

“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.”

“You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.”

World Children Engaged Tunes Engagement Autistic Autistic Children

Author:Temple Grandin

“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.”

“I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.”

Want Years Remember Young Hours Grew Behavior Grew Up Backgrounds Noise Touched Plates Carpet Spinning Autistic Yaks Background Noise Spinning Plates

Author:Temple Grandin

“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.”

Play Behave Autistic Keep Learning

Author:Temple Grandin

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

Children Teacher Autistic Knack Autistic Children

Author:Temple Grandin

“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.”

Children Persons Problem Certain Sound Voice Cases Teacher Related Autistic Autistic Children

Author:Temple Grandin

“I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.”

Knows Wells Numbers Adults Autistic Prozac

Author:Temple Grandin

“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. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing.”

Ifs Way Want Needs Giving Children Important Young Parent Cold Glasses Communicate Boards Milk Bathroom Want Something Jackets Request Autistic Autistic Children

Author:Temple Grandin

“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.”

People Thinking Social Space Brain Circuits Autistic Processors

Author:Temple Grandin

“By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.”

Enough Seems Kids Certain Turns Social Acting Skills Normal Autistic Social Skills

Author:Temple Grandin

“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.”

Knows Ends Bigs Jobs Speak Half Valleys Autism Severe Vans Spectrum Autistic Silicon Handicaps Silicon Valley

Author:Temple Grandin

“In the 50s and 60s, kids were taught how to shake hands. They were taught how to have manners. There needs to be a lot more of that kind of stuff because the autistic mind doesn't pick up social things and subtle cues.”

Needs Mind Kind Hands Kids Social Stuff Taught Picks Manners Shakes Subtle Autistic

Author:Temple Grandin

“People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.”

People Thinking Spectrum Autistic

Author:Temple Grandin

“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.”

Knows Kind Two Facts Bigs Together Computer Genes Awkward Autism Programmers Autistic Computer Programmers Clusters Socially Awkward

Author:Temple Grandin

“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.”

Ifs Persons Problem Kids Together Anxiety Traits Autism Autistic Family History Epilepsy Anxiety Depression

Author:Temple Grandin

“Well the dog that is the most is the a Labrador retrievers because they tolerate kids tugging on them and things better than other dogs. They are a real good natured. They’re also real calm and sometimes when working with autistic children that’s probably more popular dog breed - now there are different ways to use service animals.”

Way Wells Children Different Real Sometimes Use Kids Animal Dog Calm Different Ways Tolerate Autistic Good Nature Tugging Retrievers Autistic Children Labradors

Author:Temple Grandin

“There are three basic ways [to use a dog to work with autistic children], one is just to be companion person and I'm thinking now more of autistic kids not somebody in a wheelchair or the dog belongs to a therapist and then it's used as an ice breaker to get the kid talking and get the kid interacting.”

Thinking Way Persons Use Kids Used Three Talking Dog Ice Companion Therapists Autistic Interacting Wheelchairs Ice Breaker

Author:Temple Grandin

“Basically when it comes to autistic kids and animals there's kind of three ways that they work, some of them are instant best buddies, they understand a cat, they understand a dog - they're best studies with it, they just know how to communicate with it. Then there's other kids that begin with a little bit of fear of the cat or the dog, but then they begin to like it and then there are other kids where you have a sensory problem - the cat meows and it hurts their ears, so they want to stay away from the cat because you never know when he might meow.”

Knows Way Want Kind Littles Problem Might Kids Three Bits Hurt Animal Know How Study Dog Little Bit Cat Ears Communicate Instant It Hurts Buddy Sensory Autistic Three Ways Best Buddies

Author:Temple Grandin

“There is three different ways that autistic kids will interact with animals.And they also need to make sure that they're not getting too rough with their animals - they need to learn how to pet the dog properly, they can't be pulling its ears and things like that.”

Way Needs Different Kids Three Animal Dog Ears Different Ways Pet Rough Pulling Autistic

Author:Temple Grandin

“Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all the way from Einstein, emollient scientist, just a little bit of the trait, many scientist and engineers, down to somebody that's going to remain nonverbal.”

People Way Littles Bits Skills Little Bit Scientist Disorder Traits Engineers Autism Variables Autistic Nonverbal Savants Scientists And Engineers

Author:Temple Grandin

“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. I mean after all, the first stone spear was not designed by the totally social people.”

People Thinking Firsts Mean Social Space Brain Stones Circuits Autistic Spears Processors

Author:Temple Grandin

“I feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists. There'd be no computer people. You'd lose a lot of artists and musicians. There'd be a horrible price to pay.”

People Ifs Feels Artist Loses Pay Computer Musician Scientist Horrible Very Strong Genetics Autistic

Author:Temple Grandin

“If you see a child with autistic-like behaviors at age two and three, the worst thing you can do is just let them sit and watch TV all day. That's just the worst thing you can do. You need to have a teacher working with that child, working on teaching language, working on social interaction, working on getting them interested in different things, and keeping their brain connected to the world.”

“The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.”

Brain One Thing Specialists Autistic

Author:Temple Grandin

“You have to get autistic kids out and expose them to things, but do this without any surprises, so they know what to expect. You have to find skilled mentors to teach them things. For me, it was an aunt, and it was my science teacher. You need to find the things they're interested in and good at and expand on this.”

Knows Needs Kids Teach Teacher Surprise Mentor Aunt Autistic Science Teacher

Author:Temple Grandin

“When I was diagnosed, mothers were blamed for causing autism. There was no autism support. They'd put autistic kids in institutions. I had severe autism. But my mom wouldn't accept that. I was put in speech therapy. My mother was always pushing me to do stuff.”

Kids Mother Stuff Accepting Support Mom Speech Institutions My Mom Therapy Pushing Autism Severe Autistic Speech Therapy

Author:Temple Grandin

“I don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a real job.”

Thinking Want Firsts Important Real Jobs Autistic Real Jobs

Author:Temple Grandin

“What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.”

People Ifs Done Happens Standing Bunch Pool Genes Autism Caves Autistic Socializing Aspergers Chatting

Author:Temple Grandin

“If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.”

Ifs Inspiring Fingers If I Could Autism Snaps Autistic

Book:Thinking in Pictures

Source: Thinking in Pictures

“Animals are like autistic savants. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that animals might actually be autistic savants. Animals have special talents normal people don't, the same way autistic people have special talents normal people don't; and at least some animals have special forms of genius normal people don't, the same way some autistic savants have special forms of genius. I think most of the time animal genius probably happens for the same reason autistic genius does: a difference in the brain autistic people share with animals.”

Source: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

“Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism.”

People Doe Jobs Half Known Smart Areas Gray Valleys Awkward Autism Nerd Geek Spectrum Autistic Silicon Silicon Valley Very Smart Gray Area Socially Awkward

Author:Temple Grandin

“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.”

Knows May Children Found Animal Environment Behavior Raised Environmental Barren Zoos Autistic Autistic Children

Author:Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin Quotes

Filter quotes by topic

Famous Temple Grandin Quotes