My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.
My life is basically my work.
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.
By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.
There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers. . . when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.
I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.
Pressure is calming to the nervous system.
You lose anyone, there’s no replacing them. What you need to get is that’s precious, you get to keep that, you don’t want to replace it. That doesn’t mean you can’t find something else just as good.
What can we do to make the world's children a priority.
"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are. "
And our conception that the way we can mitigate the fact that people don't have retirement savings can be more work, or working longer, or just sort of staying in the game for longer is really a false hope. And it's a false promise.