Home / Authors / Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin Quotes

Professor

Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science and an autism advocate. Born on August 29, 1947, she has made significant contributions to the understanding of autism and animal welfare through her groundbreaking research. Grandin's innovative designs, such as the 'hug box,' have improved livestock handling practices. She is also an author and speaker, sharing her experiences and insights on autism and animal welfare with the world.

Filter quotes by topic

All Autism People Animal Thinking Autistic Ifs Kids Knows Children Dog Needs Cat Want Way Social Different Problem Kind Behavior Sensory

Famous Temple Grandin Quotes

“Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.”

Years Kind Children Problem Age School Five Ten Normal Capable All Kinds Vary Variables Nonverbal School Work Neurological Disorders

Author:Temple Grandin

“I was nonverbal until I was four years old. Back in the 50s, I was the kind of kid they used to just put away in an institution. But then you get the milder autism where there's no speech delay, but they're socially awkward. Those kids were around when I was a child. They were just called geeks and nerds.”

Years Kind Children Kids Used Four Speech Institutions Four Years Awkward Autism Delay Nerd Geek Nonverbal Socially Awkward

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

“I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.”

Kind Kids Jobs Seeing Skills Smart Employment Awkward Socially Awkward

Author:Temple Grandin

“I'm seeing too many kind of socially awkward kids that get through schools and then they can't hold a job because they haven't learned the discipline of get up in the morning.”

Kind Kids School Jobs Morning Seeing Havens Discipline Get Up Awkward Socially Awkward

Author:Temple Grandin

“Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.”

Kind Art Jobs Design Be Good Like Me Visuals Thinker Industrial Design

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

“Sometimes cats just avoid using a litter box but that [cat going poop outside the litter box but pees inside the litter box] is kind of strange. Most time people ask me why they go outside the litter box period.”

People Kind Sometimes Asks Strange Periods Cat Boxes Ask Me

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

“Now there are a few things with a shelter - like with noise control, don't face dog runs facing each other that tends to encourage barking. The problem you've got is that the kind of materials that absorb noise are difficult to clean. One of the biggest problems in the design of animal shelters is that animals are barking and it's like the sound of a jet plane taking off.”

Kind Problem Running Faces Difficult Sound Animal Dog Design Materials Clean Noise Planes Shelter Jet Jet Planes Animal Shelter

Author:Temple Grandin

“The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.”

“All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to be rude. And I'm seeing some problems today where somebody's losing a job because they made fun of a fat lady that couldn't fit in the elevator. I mean that was the sort of thing that, when I was eight years old, my mother made it very clear to me that that was not okay to say that kind of stuff.”

Years Kind Mean Children Made Problem Today Jobs Mother Fun Stuff Clear Seeing Taught Fit Please Losing Okay Eight Fats Made It Manners Rude Elevators Not Okay Please And Thank You

Author:Temple Grandin

“One area of study that still needs to be done is the kind of autism where kids have speech and they lose it. Some parents say it's happened right after vaccines. That group needs to be studied separately from others.”

Needs Kind Stills Done Kids Parent Loses Study Happened Groups Speech Areas Autism Vaccines

Author:Temple Grandin

“I don't like the way most people think. It's imprecise. I find that when parents ask me questions, they ask very imprecise questions. They say, "My kid has behavioral problems at school." Well, I have to say, "What kind of problems? Is he hitting? Is he rude? Does he rock in class?" I need to narrow questions to specifics. I am very pragmatic and intellectual, not emotional. I do get great satisfaction when a parent says, "I read your book, and it really helped me."”

People Thinking Way Needs Wells Kind Doe Book Problem Kids School Asks Parent Class Rocks Emotional Intellectual Satisfaction Ask Me Hitting Rude Pragmatic Specifics

Author:Temple Grandin

“The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.”

World Needs Mind Kind Different Together Working Together Different Kinds

Author:Temple Grandin