Giving those animals [in shelter] quality time - now, I have been in some of the shelters where the cats have been in group housing. Well if you have a cat that never gets out of sternal recumbency, now what that means is that [inaudible] - that's a stressed cat. If they lay on their side, then they are not stressed out.

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 believed in building on what was there. These were people who didn't try to drag me into their world, but came into mine instead.

What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.

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

A cat can be social, but a dog, we've bred this hyper social animal that's really truly different and will do stuff for us just to please us with praise and stroking.

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.

My life is basically my work.