The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's lik…

- Temple Grandin

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

- Temple Grandin

I am different, not less

- Temple Grandin

When I was younger I was looking for this magic meaning of life. It's very simple now. Making the lives of others better, doing something of lasting …

- Temple Grandin

In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

- Temple Grandin

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and soci…

- Temple Grandin

People on the autism spectrum don't think the same way you do. In my life, people who made a difference were those who didn't see labels, who believe…

- Temple Grandin

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

- Temple Grandin

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

- Temple Grandin