Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.

Fear was my main emotion until I started taking anti-depressant medication. And I was one of the people where, as I got older, the fear got worse and worse. So I can really relate to an animal getting, you know, scared and traumatized.

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

You can tame feral cats, but you are never gonna get them like a cat that's been socialized at a very young age.

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

I've got my one area I work in and I want to educate people about autism and I also want to improve, you know, animal handling and transport and make a real change out in the field on the ground.