You'd think when you saw my old MTV stuff that I was always drunk and high and all that stuff. I wasn't.
Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
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.
Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play.
Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.
You're worth the investment in yourself and what you feel, you can and want to be
When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy. '