There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.
Temple GrandinPeople talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?
Temple GrandinBut my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.
Temple GrandinI can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.
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