Temple Grandin

So if I have to work at Walmart and I have to close out the cash register, please give me a pilot's checklist with the steps to close out the cash register.

They're written bullet point directions.

Save a lot of jobs.

That's true.

Well, autism comes in three types.

Right.

The fully verbal.

The object visualizer like me, who thinks in photorealistic pictures, which are shown in the movie.

We're good at mechanical things, anything mechanical, art, photography, and animals.

Then you have a mathematical type.

That thinks in patterns.

And then you have a word thinker that's very, very good with facts about their favorite subject.

Now, I worked with a lot of people that were definitely autistic, owned metal fabrication shops, and they were inventing mechanical equipment.

But these are people my age, my generation.

And I have granddads and grandmoms come up to me all the time where they were employed in good jobs because they learned how to work at an early age.

They had paper routes.

And we've got to find substitutes for paper routes.

Where they're working for somebody outside the family.

Like maybe a church volunteer job.

or walking the neighbor's dog or helping out at the farmer's market.