Temple Grandin
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Einstein didn't speak until age three.
He'd be labeled autistic today.
Like, oh, Angela was really autistic.
Steve Jobs.
Elon Musk has come out that he was autistic.
Right.
He was also very badly bullied as a child and thrown down the stairs and has face smashed.
Well, that's what I've tried to do in my books.
I always write a lot of practical stuff like, okay, don't burden the autistic person with long strings of verbal sequential information.
Make pilots checklists.
Let's keep them out of the rapid multitasking chaos jobs at a takeout window.
and things like that.
Get rid of the LED lights that flicker.
See, those are very, very basic things that you can do.
Having been somebody that worked in a very high-end skilled trades.
All the best people they had were autistic.
And what's happening now, like you take meat plants, for example, now.
They'll have anybody there that can fix anything.
I take a very practical approach.
And there's no theory in my talks.