Temple Grandin

This would have been 70s, 80s, and 90s.

I was out on construction projects, supervising installation of equipment that I had designed.

Working with people that owned shops that were autistic.

and they had decent jobs.

And I'm not going to say their lives were totally stress-free.

They weren't.

But they were definitely not committing suicide.

Right.

I mean, this is one of the reasons why we need to get people into really good careers.

And I tell business people, we need their skills.

I have been on very questionable elevators lately.

I found an elevator the other day in a hotel, a brand-name hotel, piece of white paper in there for the inspection certificate.

It's not getting serviced.

Elevators making weird screeching noises.

And for the visual thinkers like me who can't do math, elevator mechanic would be a perfect job.

Airplane mechanic.

All this trouble with Boeing.

Who do you want assembling your rudder bolts?

I'd rather have somebody autistic putting together the rudder pedal mechanism.

The pilot goes to land the plane and the rudder pedals don't work.