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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.

Temple Grandin's Popular Quotes

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…

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The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

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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 …

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

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I am different, not less

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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…

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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…

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

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

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