27 Thought-Provoking Temple Grandin Quotes Everyone Must Know

I am different, not less.

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Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.

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What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

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I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.

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You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.

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If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.

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I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

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The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism)

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Animals make us Human.

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Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.

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[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.

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The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.

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There’s a saying in engineering: You can build things cheap, fast, or right, but not all three.

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DIFFERENT NOT LESS

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My mind can always separate the two. Even when I am very upset, I keep reviewing the facts over and over until I can come to a logical conclusion.

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Animals like novelty if they can choose to investigate it; they fear novelty if you shove it in their faces.

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Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

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I get great satisfaction out of doing clever things with my mind, but I don’t know what it is like to feel rapturous joy.

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Neither living nor learning was good without order.

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Children who are visual thinkers will often be good at drawing, other arts, and building things with building toys such as Legos.

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Bad things always happen when an animal is overselected for any single trait. Nature will give you a nasty surprise.

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In a noisy place I can’t understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.

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I replaced emotional complexity with visual and intellectual complexity. I questioned everything and looked to logic, science, and intellect for answers.

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Many autistic children like to smell things, and smell may provide more reliable information about their surroundings than either vision or hearing.

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There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth

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Kanner had cause and effect backward. The child wasn’t behaving in a psychically isolated or physically destructive manner because the parents were emotionally distant. Instead, the

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It is human nature to strive.

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