Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much … - Temple Grandin

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I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc. , their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.

Temple Grandin

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

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