Temple Grandin Quotes

A cat can be social, but a dog, we've bred this hyper social animal that's really truly different and will do stuff for us just to please us with praise and stroking.

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.

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

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

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

I am a big believer in early intervention.

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

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

I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.

If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

Things like microphones are dangerous things because you never know when they might feedback and squeal.

I get asked a lot why cats mess outside the litter box. The simplest thing is if you have more than one cat and you have two litter boxes, don't put them right next to each other.

Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard.

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.

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

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

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

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

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.

Animals make us Human.

Medication should never be considered the only tool for helping a person.

People with autism aren't interested in social chit-chat.

Everything I think is in pictures.

I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals; and they can't explain how they do. They just get a feeling from the animal.

Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

I like to figure things out and solve problems.

The reason why feral kitties are hard to tame is because they have missed socialization the period - you need to be touching and petting those kittens when they are real young.

Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.

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.

People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.

I want get people to think about sensory based of thinking.

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

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

My Advice is: You always have to keep persevering.

I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs to be painless.

Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does.

The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.

I'm a believer in biochemistry. But I tell people to try only one thing at a time to see if it works. And if you do give a powerful drug to a kid, it better have a big wow factor.

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

I've been on antidepressants for years, and it worked to stop my anxiety and didn't limit creativity. Some of the best work I've done, in fact, is after I started taking the antidepressants.

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.

To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.

I'm a big believer in getting kids involved in things where there's a shared interest because that's where they can have friends.