Temple Grandin Quotes - Page 4

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• Giving those animals [in shelter] quality time - now, I have been in some of the shelters where the cats have been in group housing. Well if you have a cat that never gets out of sternal recumbency, now what that means is that [inaudible] - that's a stressed cat. If they lay on their side, then they are not stressed out.

  Temple Grandin

  Mean, Cat, Animal

  Source: www.floppycats.com

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• I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Google, Brain

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• If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.

  Temple Grandin

  Men, Fire, Autism

  "Thinking in Pictures : My Life with Autism (Expanded Edition)". Book by Temple Grandin, 2006.

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• I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

  Temple Grandin

  Real, Needs, World

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• If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

  Temple Grandin

  Space, Autism, Delay

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• I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Art, Kids

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• 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.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Skills, Acting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• For example, if ears are back on a horse, it's obviously not very happy. And the eyes show that it's not happy. Now, if the eyes are nice and soft and brown, then it's calm. You can see these things in horses and cattle, and I think that some of these people are just really good at picking up these signals, but they don't realize it.

  Temple Grandin

  Horse, Nice, Eye

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Medication should never be considered the only tool for helping a person.

  Temple Grandin

  Tools, Helping, Medication

  Temple Grandin, Kate Duffy (2008). “Developing Talents: Careers for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome and High-functioning Autism”, p.25, AAPC Publishing

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• Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

  Temple Grandin

  Pressure, Calming, Nervous

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.

  Temple Grandin

  Simple, Autism, Stuff

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Treatment, Integrated

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 01, 1996.

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• In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation.... Typical abuses I have witnessed with alarming frequency are; hitting, beating, use of badly maintained trucks, jabbing of short objects into animals, and deliberate cruelty.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Abuse, Hitting

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• One of the big areas I'd like to see a lot more research done on is the sensory problems, and it's real variable. One kid's got sound sensitivity; another one can't tolerate fluorescent lights. I can't stand scratchy clothes.

  Temple Grandin

  Real, Kids, Clothes

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• My Advice is: You always have to keep persevering.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Advice

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• Animals make us Human.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Humans

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2010). “Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

  Temple Grandin

  Hurt, School, Silence

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Birth, Realizing

  Temple Grandin (2009). “Thinking in Pictures”, p.141, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get my words out. So the only way I could tell someone what I wanted was to scream. If I didn't want to wear a hat, the only way I knew to communicate was screaming and throwing it on the floor.

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  Two, Stressed, Want

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• From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Aspergers, Syndromes

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• People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, People, Who We Are

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• Autism is part of who I am.

  Temple Grandin

  Who I Am, Autism

  "A Look Inside Temple Grandin's Mind". Interview With Susan Dunne, articles.courant.com. February 24, 2011.

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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.

  Temple Grandin

  Baby, Hurt, Animal

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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

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  Mean, Thinking, Space

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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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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  Running, Reality, College

  "A Conversation with Temple Grandin". "Talk of the Nation Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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