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We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

- Temple Grandin
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I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt's ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to go for two weeks or all summer. I wound up staying all summer. And that's where I learned about cattle. I could relate to their behavior, their fears.

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

My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures.

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants.

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.

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.

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

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We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.