{"author":"Temple Grandin","author_id":"Temple+Grandin","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.","author":"Temple Grandin","tags":["analysis","will","records "],"id":27192,"author_id":"Temple+Grandin"},{"text":"I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.","author":"Temple Grandin","tags":["animals","emotions","humans"],"id":31317,"author_id":"Temple+Grandin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Temple Grandin","tags":["brain","differences","know "],"id":63879,"author_id":"Temple+Grandin"},{"text":"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.'.","author":"Temple Grandin","tags":["art","end","people "],"id":98482,"author_id":"Temple+Grandin"},{"text":"It is human nature to strive.","author":"Temple Grandin","tags":["inspirational","psychology","science"],"id":121542,"author_id":"Temple+Grandin"},{"text":"If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.","author":"Temple Grandin","tags":["family","history","you "],"id":140963,"author_id":"Temple+Grandin"},{"text":"Label-locked thinking can affect treatment. For instance, I heard a doctor say about a kid with gastrointestinal issues, “Oh, he has autism. That’s the problem”—and then he didn’t treat the GI problem.","author":"Temple Grandin","tags":["diagnosis","doctors","labels","medicine"],"id":155500,"author_id":"Temple+Grandin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Temple Grandin","tags":["music","weather","statistics "],"id":167164,"author_id":"Temple+Grandin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Temple Grandin","tags":["play","you","always "],"id":190243,"author_id":"Temple+Grandin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Temple Grandin","tags":["autism","psychology","society"],"id":233716,"author_id":"Temple+Grandin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}