I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.

Cats are great with clicker training. There's a great video you can get called "Clicker Magic". There's a scene in that video where a cat is trained to go through a mini dog agility course - it's all done with food motivation and clicker training. You can train them to do all sorts of thing.

You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.