I'd rather see a kid get fixated on something they can turn into a career.

To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.

Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.

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

Autism is part of who I am.

I am different, not less

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.