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I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.
You got barn cats and you want to make them tamed, you need to get them as kittens.
My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.
You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.
What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.
If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.
There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.
The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.
You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.
And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.
If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.
Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.
My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures.
The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.
Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.
Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.
Things like microphones are dangerous things because you never know when they might feedback and squeal.
Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.
People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.
People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.
I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.
People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?
You can tame feral cats, but you are never gonna get them like a cat that's been socialized at a very young age.
The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.
We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats.
I'm seeing too many geeky, nerdy kids get addicted to video games and they're going nowhere. It's making me crazy.
You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.
I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'
I've worked with tons of people that I know who are on the spectrum - but now I think severe autism has really increased.
Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs to be painless.
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.
The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.
There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.
I'm a big believer in getting kids involved in things where there's a shared interest because that's where they can have friends.
The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.
There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.
From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.
My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.
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.
here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does.
The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.
If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed.
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.
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.
Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life.
It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.