"Its OK to be an eccentric; its not OK to be a rude and dirty eccentric."
Mary Temple Grandin is an American academic, inventor, and ethologist. She is a prominent proponent of the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter and the author of more than 60 scientific papers on animal behavior. Grandin is a consultant to the livestock industry, where she offers advice on animal behavior.
"I had auditory sensory problems and touch sensitivity problems, I had no problems with my vision. Other people absolutely cannot stand fluorescent lighting and theyre sometimes helped by a thing called the Irlen colored glasses where you try on all kinds of different pale colored glasses until its easier to read. It stops the problem of the print jiggling on the page."
Temple Grandin"Even today, romantic love is just not part of my life. And you know what? Thats okay with me."
Temple Grandin"(About the workplace) Tyrants who get into power make life miserable for everyone."
Temple Grandin"Since I think just in pictures its sort of hard to think about abstract concepts so I have to have visual images like for example when I was a child I didnt really understand some of the stuff in the Lords Prayer and yknow when it talks about "the power and the glory"...and I thought "electrical high tension lines, circular rainbow." "Thou art in Heaven"; that didnt make any sense to me but another autistic person says "Well I always pictured God up in Heaven with an easel."
Temple Grandin"They may ask why nature or God created such horrible conditions as autism, manic depression, and schizophrenia. However, if the genes that caused these conditions were eliminated there might be a terrible price to pay."
Temple Grandin"If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave."
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