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61 " Complicating matters even further, on a day-to-day basis, in the same individual, the sensory sensitivities can change, especially when the person is tired or stressed. These "
― Temple Grandin , The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's
62 " People who are attached to each other develop a social dependence on each other that's based in a physical dependence on brain opiates. "
― Temple Grandin , Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
63 " 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 "
― Temple Grandin , The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
64 " We do know, however that almost no animal routinely kills prey animal on an indiscriminate basis.The only wild animal I’ve seen who will sometimes violate this rule is the coyote. Most of the time a coyote eats the animals he kills, but occasionally coyotes will go on a lamb-killing spree, killing twenty and eating only one. I believe it’s possible coyotes have lost some of their economy of behavior by living in close proximity to humans and overabundant food supplies. A coyote that kills twenty lambs and eats only one isn’t going to have to trek a hundred miles to find more lambs next week. Any sheep rancher will have several hundred other lambs that will be just as easy to catch later on, and the coyote knows it. Wild coyotes have probably lost the knowledge taht you shouldn't waste food or energy. "
65 " intense stereotypies—stereotypies an animal spends hours a day doing—almost never occur in the wild, "
― Temple Grandin , Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
66 " The body and the brain aren’t two different things, controlled by two completely different sets of genes. Many of the same chemicals that work in your heart and organs also work in your brain, and many genes do one thing "
67 " Eye contact is still difficult for me in noisy rooms because it interferes with hearing. It’s like my brain’s wiring lets only one sense function or the other, but sometimes not both at the same time. In noisy rooms, I have to concentrate on hearing. Some "
68 " At the age of three, Tito Mukhopadhyay was diagnosed with severe autism, but his mother, Soma, refused to accept the conventional wisdom of the time that her son would be unable to interact with the outside world. She read to him, taught him to write in English, and challenged him to write his own stories. "
69 " One of the most profound mysteries of autism has been the remarkable ability of most autistic people to excel at visual spatial skills while performing so poorly at verbal skills. "
― Temple Grandin , Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
70 " The “Intense World” paper proposed that if the amygdala, which is associated with emotional responses, including fear, is affected by sensory overload, then certain responses that look antisocial actually aren’t. "
71 " Impaired social interactions and withdrawal may not be the result of a lack of compassion, incapability to put oneself into someone else’s position or lack of emotionality "
72 " but quite to the contrary a result of an intensely if not painfully aversively perceived environment.” Behavior that looks antisocial to an outsider might actually be an expression of fear. "
73 " The diagnosis of autism can sometimes help you better predict a child’s behaviors, but it tells you nothing about their specific way of thinking, their idiosyncrasies, their strengths, or their individual personality. "
― Temple Grandin , Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets For Helping Kids on the Spectrum
74 " Every person with autism is unique, with a different profile of strengths and challenges. "
75 " different way of thinking and learning. People with autism are people first. "
76 " We'd discuss one unwritten rule and a hundred exceptions would instantaneously appear. "
― Temple Grandin , Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through Autism's Unique Perspectives
77 " The best thing a parent of a newly diagnosed child can do is to watch their child without preconceived notions and judgements and learn how the child functions, acts, and reacts to his or her world. "
78 " Autistic thinking is always detailed and specific. Teachers and parents need to help both children and adults with autism take all the little details they have in their head and put them into categories to form concepts and promote generalization. "
79 " The memory feats of food-caching animals that can remember the location of hundreds of food stores are highly similar to the ability of some people with autism to memorize every street in a city. My theory is that savant-type skills occur when memories are sensory-based instead of language-based. Language leads to abstractification and loss of detail. Animals naturally lack language and autistic people have language problems because of a disorder, but in autistic people and animals the cause of sensory-based memory is the same: thinking and remembering in pictures instead of words. "
80 " To summarize this chapter, parents and teachers need to “stretch” individuals on the autism spectrum. They need to be stretched just outside their comfort zone for them to develop. "