Temple Grandin
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One thing I learned, I was at the boarding school, I learned how to work.
A lot of autistic kids today are not learning work skills.
Out of the fact that basically I was in charge of the school's horse barn.
I cleaned stalls.
I put them in and out.
I fed them.
A lot of autistic kids aren't learning work skills.
I'm seeing too many fully verbal, smart autistic teenagers who have never gone shopping.
They've never ordered food in a restaurant.
They don't have a bank account.
But to learn these skills.
And they're not being taught.
Yes.
Okay.
Oh, way much better.
My science teacher when I was in high school got me motivated to study.
Now, I couldn't do higher math.
I'm one of these visual thinkers who can't do higher math.
I failed the SAT in algebra.
I went into college on probation.