Temple Grandin Quotes

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
Temple Grandin

Words, Remember, Talk

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
Temple Grandin

Change, Single, Everything

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
Temple Grandin

Teacher, Good, Enough

If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.
Temple Grandin

Time, Simple, Person

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
Temple Grandin

Work, Children, May

You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.
Temple Grandin

Children, Cannot, Keep

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

Family, History, Space

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.
Temple Grandin

Good, School, Emotional

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.
Temple Grandin

Someone, Boring, Down

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.
Temple Grandin

Hurt, Same, Research

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.
Temple Grandin

Brain, Google, Images

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.
Temple Grandin

Made, Guy, Autism

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.
Temple Grandin

Hurt, School, Through

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.
Temple Grandin

Parenting, Emotional, Bad

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.
Temple Grandin

Treat, Looking, High

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.
Temple Grandin

Autism, Disorder, Extremely

I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.
Temple Grandin

Remember, Young, Old

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'
Temple Grandin

Art, Science, End

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.
Temple Grandin

Learning, Play, Keep

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.
Temple Grandin

Music, Sports, Bad

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.
Temple Grandin

System, Pressure, Nervous

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.
Temple Grandin

Children, Person, Cannot

Autism is part of who I am.
Temple Grandin

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

While, Risk, Subject

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.
Temple Grandin

Great, Intellect, Using

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Nationality: American

Born: August 29, 1947

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