-”I am very concerned about careers for people with high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome. Since Thinking in Pictures was written, more and more really gifted students are being labeled as having Asperger's. I am worried that some of these students will have their careers hindered by the label. The students I am most concerned about are the very bright students who are not being challenged at school and who misbehave because they are bored. In some schools these students are kept out of gifted and talented classes due to the Asperger's label.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 116.

-”I have observed that there are many successful undiagnosed people with Asperger's working in many jobs.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 116.

-”A little bit of the autism trait provides advantages but too much creates a low-functioning individual who can not live independently. The paradox is that milder forms of autism and Asperger's are part of human diversity but severe autism is a great disability. There is no black-and-white dividing line between an eccentric brilliant scientist and Asperger's.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 122.

-”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.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 122.

-”Autistic people tend to have difficulty lying because of the complex emotions involved in deception.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 122.

-”Learning social skills is like learning how to act in a play. Social skills can be taught but social emotional relatedness cannot be taught. Social skills and emotional relatedness are two different things.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 164.

-”My emotion is either turned on or all turned off. I have the four simple emotions of happy, sad, fearful, or angry. I never have mixtures of these emotions, but I can rapidly switch emotions.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 164.

-”Briefly, the most important similarity is that both animals and people with autism can think without language. They think by associating sensory based memories such as smells, sounds, or visual images into categories.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 201.

-”The second similarity is that both animals and people with autism possess savant-type skills.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 201.

-”The third similarity is that both think in details. ...my thinking involves putting details together to form concepts. A normal person forms a concept first and tends to ignore details. Animals and individuals with autism notice details that normal people may not perceive.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 201.

-”The fourth similarity between animals and autism is extreme sensitivity to tone. I did not perceive eye signals from other people but I did attend to tone of voice. Tone was the only subtle social signal that I perceived.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 202.

-”All people on the spectrum think in details, but there are three basic categories of specialized brains.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 28.

-”Visual thinkers, like me, think in photographically specific images.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 28.

-”Visual thinkers are well suited to jobs in drafting, graphic design, training animals, auto mechanics, jewelry making, construction, and factory automation.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 28.

-”Music and math thinkers think in patterns. These people often excel at math, chess, and computer programming.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 28.

-”Verbal logic thinkers think in word details. They often love history, foreign languages, weather statistics, and stock market reports.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 29.

-”The one common denominator of all autistic and Asperger thinking is that details are associated into categories to form a concept.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 32.

-”I am very concerned about careers for people with high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome. Since Thinking in Pictures was written, more and more really gifted students are being labeled as having Asperger's. I am worried that some of these students will have their careers hindered by the label. The students I am most concerned about are the very bright students who are not being challenged at school and who misbehave because they are bored. In some schools these students are kept out of gifted and talented classes due to the Asperger's label.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 116.

-”I have observed that there are many successful undiagnosed people with Asperger's working in many jobs.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 116.

-”A little bit of the autism trait provides advantages but too much creates a low-functioning individual who can not live independently. The paradox is that milder forms of autism and Asperger's are part of human diversity but severe autism is a great disability. There is no black-and-white dividing line between an eccentric brilliant scientist and Asperger's.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 122.

-”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.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 122.

-”Autistic people tend to have difficulty lying because of the complex emotions involved in deception.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 122.

-”Learning social skills is like learning how to act in a play. Social skills can be taught but social emotional relatedness cannot be taught. Social skills and emotional relatedness are two different things.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 164.

-”My emotion is either turned on or all turned off. I have the four simple emotions of happy, sad, fearful, or angry. I never have mixtures of these emotions, but I can rapidly switch emotions.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 164.

-”Briefly, the most important similarity is that both animals and people with autism can think without language. They think by associating sensory based memories such as smells, sounds, or visual images into categories.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 201.

-”The second similarity is that both animals and people with autism possess savant-type skills.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 201.

-”The third similarity is that both think in details. ...my thinking involves putting details together to form concepts. A normal person forms a concept first and tends to ignore details. Animals and individuals with autism notice details that normal people may not perceive.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 201.

-”The fourth similarity between animals and autism is extreme sensitivity to tone. I did not perceive eye signals from other people but I did attend to tone of voice. Tone was the only subtle social signal that I perceived.”
Grandin, Temple (2006) Thinking in pictures. Random House, Inc.: New York, New York. pp. 202.

-”I beg you: Do not allow a child or an adult to become defined by a DSM label.”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. p. vii.

-”I'm sensitive to sounds. Loud sounds. Sudden sounds. Worse yet, loud and sudden sounds I don't expect. Worst of all, loud and sudden sounds I do expect but cannot control - a common problem in people with autism.”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. p. 69.

-”The difference between the observer's view and the subject's experience - between the acting self and the thinking self - is the difference between what sensory problems look like and what they feel like.”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. p. 83.

-”In either case, the lesson isn't that some people with autism receive too much information and are therefore overresponsive while other people with autism receive too little information and are therefore underresponsive. The lesson is that if your brain receives too much sensory information, your acting self might easily look underresponsive but your thinking self would feel overwhelmed.”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. p. 84.

-”I have often thought that eventually we're going to be asking ourselves at what point this or that autism-related genetic variation is just a normal variation. Everything in the brain, everything in genetics - they're all one big continuum.”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. p. 104.

-”For some people, a label can become the thing that defines them. It can easily lead to what I call a handicapped mentality. When a person gets a diagnosis of Asperger's, for instance, he might start to think, What's the point? or I'll never hold down a job. His whole life starts to revolve around what he can't do instead of what he can do, or at least what he can try to improve.”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. p. 105.

-”Half the employees at Silicon Valley tech companies would be diagnosed with Asperger's if they allowed themselves to be diagnosed, which they avoid like the proverbial plague. ... A generation ago a lot of these people would have been seen simply as gifted.”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. pp. 105-106.

-”(To my way of thinking, social impairments are the very core of autism - more so than the repetitive behaviors.) So having a diagnosis of social impairment that's distinct from the diagnosis of autism is the same as having a diagnosis of autism that's distinct from the diagnosis of autism!”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. p. 110.

-”Personally, I would go even further and argue that we need to think not just about smaller autism subgroups that are defined by their symptoms but about the symptoms themselves. Because thinking about individual symptoms on a symptom-by-symptom basis will eventually allow us to think about diagnosis and treatment on a patient-by-patient basis.”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. p. 115.

-”While autism researchers traditionally haven't seen this trait as a strength, they've nonetheless noted over the years that people with autism often pay greater attention to details than neurotypicals.”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. pp. 119-120.

-”Researchers have a lovely term for that tendency to see the trees before recognizing the forest: local bias.”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. p. 122.

-”I know that my short-term memory is horrible, which isn't unusual among high-functioning autistics. We're not good at multitasking. We have poor memories for faces and names. And sequencing? Forget it.”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. p. 127.

-”I think that bottom-up, details-first thinkers like myself are more likely to have creative breakthroughs just because we don't know where we're going. We accumulate details without knowing what they mean and without necessarily attaching emotional significance to them. We seek connections among them without knowing where they're taking us. We hope those associations will lead us to the big picture-the forest-but we don't know where we will be until we arrive there. We expect surprises.”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. p. 131.

-”An attention to details, a hefty memory, and an ability to make associations can all work together to make the unlikely creative leap ever more likely.”
Grandin, Temple (2013) The Autistic Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston; New York. p. 131.