It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.

One area of study that still needs to be done is the kind of autism where kids have speech and they lose it. Some parents say it's happened right after vaccines. That group needs to be studied separately from others.

Things like microphones are dangerous things because you never know when they might feedback and squeal.

The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.

Curiosity is the other side of caution.