Thinking In Pictures Quotes

“In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism

“But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism

“I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism

“[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism

“Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism

“I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism

“My mind can always separate the two. Even when I am very upset, I keep reviewing the facts over and over until I can come to a logical conclusion.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“The word “autism” still conveys a fixed and dreadful meaning to most people—they visualize a child mute, rocking, screaming, inaccessible, cut off from human contact. And we almost always speak of autistic children, never of autistic adults, as if such children never grew up, or were somehow mysteriously spirited off the planet, out of society.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“In a noisy place I can’t understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“Children who are visual thinkers will often be good at drawing, other arts, and building things with building toys such as Legos.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“The Internet may be the best thing yet for improving an autistic person’s social life.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“I replaced emotional complexity with visual and intellectual complexity. I questioned everything and looked to logic, science, and intellect for answers.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“My thinking pattern always starts with specifics and works toward generalization in an associational and nonsequential way.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“I get great satisfaction out of doing clever things with my mind, but I don’t know what it is like to feel rapturous joy.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“Teachers who work with autistic children need to understand associative thought patterns.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“To destroy other people's culture is to rob them of immortality.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism

“The easiest words for an autistic child to learn are nouns, because they directly relate to pictures. Highly verbal autistic children like I was can sometimes learn how to read with phonics. Written words were too abstract for me to remember, but I could laboriously remember the approximately fifty phonetic sounds and a few rules.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“Many autistic children like to smell things, and smell may provide more reliable information about their surroundings than either vision or hearing.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“I was also struck, when we walked together, by her seeming inability to feel some of the simplest emotions. “The mountains are pretty,” she said, “but they don’t give me a special feeling, the feeling you seem to enjoy … You look at the brook, the flowers, I see what great pleasure you get out of it. I’m denied that.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“More knowledge makes me act more normal”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism

“One of the most profound mysteries of autism has been the remarkable ability of most autistic people to excel at visual spatial skills while performing so poorly at verbal skills.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“The Mind of a Mnemonist”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“Sacks O 1994 Edgar A. Poe: a psychopathic study. Sacks O. 1995 Prodigies. The New Yorker, pp. 44–65. January 9,”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“Texas., Future Horizons U. Frith 1989 A Thorn in My Pocket. Arlington, Texas., Future Horizons”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“Sacks 1994 An anthropologist on Mars. New Yorker, December 27, pp. 106–125”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“Musk told Vance, “I think there are probably too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven’t seen as much innovation.” I totally agree with this.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“I went online recently and looked at Common Core arithmetic problems for elementary school. The procedure that replaced borrowing in subtraction was so complicated I would have been lost. Common Core promoted no arithmetic that I could use in the real world.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“Rules of Living” from Roy Rogers,”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“Judaism and Islam have detailed slaughter rituals.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“Guinagh Kevin in his book Inspired Amateurs.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism