I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.

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

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

I don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a real job.

The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.

I feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists. There'd be no computer people. You'd lose a lot of artists and musicians. There'd be a horrible price to pay.

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.