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

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

You got barn cats and you want to make them tamed, you need to get them as kittens.

I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.

You have to use food motivation whereas a dog will do things for you just for social motivation, praise and petting. Also with any animal you want to stroke it. Don't pat it, stroke it. Most don't like patting.

I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.

There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.