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 socializing and not getting anything done.
Temple GrandinIn fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes.
Temple GrandinThe dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.
Temple GrandinThe squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.
Temple GrandinI know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up on a lot little posture things like how the eyes look, the posture of the cat ears, is it tense? They're picking up just a lot of their body cues from the dog, the cat or the horse.
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