The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.

The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.

We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats.

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They can do calendar calculations. And this is similar to some of the skills that animals have.