People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

I feel very strongly, we've got to give animals a good life. I've worked really hard improving slaughter plants and animal handling and transport. And people have said to me, why don't you work on improving conditions on pig farms? And basically, to be effective on making real change out there on the ground, you can only work on so many things. You know, you get too distributed, you're not effective.

People on the autism spectrum don't think the same way you do. In my life, people who made a difference were those who didn't see labels, who believed in building on what was there. These were people who didn't try to drag me into their world, but came into mine instead.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.