Whereas an elephant that was scared to death that diesel powered equipment, equipment that ran on a gas engine, was just fine. Because somebody had attacked it with construction equipment. But if it had a diesel engine, it was bad.
Temple GrandinIn special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.
Temple GrandinPeople need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.
Temple GrandinI'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.
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