Yaks Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Temple Grandin

  Years, Spinning Plates, Background Noise

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• I update my MySpace every day, I update my Facebook fan page, but that's about the extent of it. I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day. I'm on the phone every day. There's like five people I just call and yak with every single day. And that to me is my Internet. You can replace the Internet with five really smart friends.

  Patton Oswalt

  Smart, Phones, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Geek, Genetics

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