The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum Quotes.

1. "Boys who cry can work for Google. Boys who trash computers cannot. I once was at a science conference, and I saw a NASA scientist who had just found out that his project was canceled—a project he’d worked on for years. He was maybe sixty-five years old, and you know what? He was crying. And I thought, Good for him. That’s why he was able to reach retirement age working in a job he loved."
- Temple Grandin, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

2. "Label-locked thinking can affect treatment. For instance, I heard a doctor say about a kid with gastrointestinal issues, Oh, he has autism. That’s the problem—and then he didn’t treat the GI problem."
- Temple Grandin, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

3. "Kanner had cause and effect backward. The child wasn’t behaving in a psychically isolated or physically destructive manner because the parents were emotionally distant. Instead, the"
- Temple Grandin, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum