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• We breed dogs to be more social than the wolf. There is very interesting research that has been done with a wolf and a domestic dog. If you have a tamed wolf and you have him sit in front of the experimenter or stand in front of his master and his two dishes, one to the right, one to the left – so that the dog or wolf see the food put in the left hand dish but the owner points to the right – the domesticated will go where owner points, whereas the the wolf goes right where he saw the meat thing put. In other words, in a dog social cue from a master can override where he saw the being placed.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Interesting, Done

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Cat, Training

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, School, Years

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 01, 1996.

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• Some cats don't like different types of kitty litter. So might try different types of kitty litter sometimes that works. You know, they don't like one type that sticks to the paws and they don't like it.

  Temple Grandin

  Cat, Trying, Sticks

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• It [cats going outside the litter box] might have something to do with - you know, I am just thinking that if I am the cat, when I'm pooping, you know, I've got to strain a little bit more and maybe that affects how the kitty litter feels on my paws. I'd try a different sub straight, or something like that - make sure it's not slippery.

  Temple Grandin

  Cat, Thinking, Trying

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I've got my one area I work in and I want to educate people about autism and I also want to improve, you know, animal handling and transport and make a real change out in the field on the ground.

  Temple Grandin

  Real, Animal, People

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Just think about it yourself; you don't want to put the [cat's] litter box down the basement because that's too far, on the other hand you don't want to put where everybody is traipsing in and out the back the door.

  Temple Grandin

  Cat, Thinking, Doors

  Source: www.floppycats.com

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• A cat you train with clicker training and what you've got to do is pair the click with a food reward. And he's doing the stuff because you get a food reward. Once you can do it all after a lot training with no food reward.

  Temple Grandin

  Cat, Training, Rewards

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• You can tame feral cats, but you are never gonna get them like a cat that's been socialized at a very young age.

  Temple Grandin

  Mean, Cat, Age

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I think the mild Aspergers have always been there. You see, Asperger's diagnosis did not become common in the U.S. until the early '90s. And an Aspergers has more or less normal speech development and they've always been here, that hasn't changed. I can think back to when I was in high school, this is 40 years ago, I could name kids in my high school class and college class that, today, would be diagnosed as Aspergers.

  Temple Grandin

  School, Kids, College

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• I think there's some kids that need to go from being a child to being a grown-up. You get out in the tech communities, the parents just apprentice their kid into the industry and they just skip being a teenager.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Teenager, Kids

  Source: www.kshb.com

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

  Temple Grandin

  Risk, Needs, Looks

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• 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

  Years, Spinning Plates, Background Noise

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• 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

  Blood, Autism, Drug

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• 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

  Teacher, Children, Voice

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• I don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a real job.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If you have a 2-year-old who is non-verbal, don't wait until you get a diagnosis at 4. The child needs one-on-one teaching with an effective teacher now. This can be a grandmother or a teacher or someone from the community. Grandmothers are especially great. There are a lot of grannies around. Go to your church for help.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Unique, Brain

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic, I get all light-headed unless I eat animal protein.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Light, Vegetarianism

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Whereas an elephant that was scared to death that diesel powered equipment, equipment that ran on a gas engine, was just fine. Because somebody had attacked it with construction equipment. But if it had a diesel engine, it was bad.

  Temple Grandin

  Elephants, Scared, Construction

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• The reason why feral kitties are hard to tame is because they have missed socialization the period - you need to be touching and petting those kittens when they are real young.

  Temple Grandin

  Real, Touching, Reason Why

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

  Temple Grandin

  Airplane, Grandfather, Pilots

  Temple Grandin (2011). “The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's”, p.249, BookBaby

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• You got barn cats and you want to make them tamed, you need to get them as kittens.

  Temple Grandin

  Cat, Barns, Needs

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• There are three basic ways [to use a dog to work with autistic children], one is just to be companion person and I'm thinking now more of autistic kids not somebody in a wheelchair or the dog belongs to a therapist and then it's used as an ice breaker to get the kid talking and get the kid interacting.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Kids, Thinking

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Volunteer, Pet

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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