In the 50s and 60s, kids were taught how to shake hands. They were taught how to have manners. There needs to be a lot more of that kind of stuff because the autistic mind doesn't pick up social things and subtle cues.

All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

I can remember being bullied and teased. It was absolutely horrible. I got kicked out of ninth grade for throwing a book at a girl who teased me. It was absolutely terrible.

Curiosity is the other side of caution.

Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.