You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.

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.

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

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.

A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, "Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad."

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.