Temple Grandin Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.”

“I've worked with tons of people that I know who are on the spectrum - but now I think severe autism has really increased.”

“My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.”

“Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.”

“Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices.”

“I was fascinated with optical illusions.”

“I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.”