286 Quotes by Temple Grandin

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool?You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.

If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.

Neurotypical people seem to think and feel that it's okay to be rigid as long as their ideas are shared by enough people.

When something is "all in your mind," people tend to think that it's willful, that it's something you could control if only you tried harder or if you had been trained differently. I'm hoping that the newfound certainty that autism is in your brain and in your genes will affect public attitudes.

The world needs all types of minds.

The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism)

In dealing with autism, I'm certainly not saying we should lose sight of the need to work on deficits, But the focus on deficits is so intense and so automatic that people lose sight of the strengths.

It's OK to be an eccentric; it's not OK to be a rude and dirty eccentric.