Temple Grandin

Yeah, they had a wild horse and that was kind of excessively crazy.

But the things that were really important were accurate.

Also, Claire Daines perfectly imitated my voice and mannerisms.

I gave her every ancient VHS tape I could find for her to study.

Well, it got a whole lot busier with speaking engagements.

And I was just out in Illinois.

I had some parents come up to me.

I could come to me in the airport.

tell me that they heard one of my talks 10 years ago or read one of my books 10 years ago and their kid is doing really well in their job and they thank me.

One of the problems I'm seeing on the fully verbal end of the autism spectrum is parents do too much for their kids, overprotect them.

All right.

They aren't learning enough basic skills.

Like, okay, like ask their question at the conference.

Mom will start to ask the question and I go, give the mic to your son.

And I get that son to talk to the whole room.

Ask his question.

Yeah.

Well, that's true.

And the thing is, there's some accommodations you do need.

And one of the things at work that's really important, I cannot remember long verbal sequences of information.