If By Some Magic, Autism Had Been

I'm Seeing Too Many Kids Where They Get Fixated On Their Own Autism. I'd Rather Have Them Get Fixated That They Like Programming Computers Or They Like Art Or They Want To Sing In The Church Choir Or They Want To Train Dogs, You Know, Something That They Can Turn Into A Career.

We've Had Several Cats. I Had A Cat When I Was A Kid. My Aunt Had Lots Of Cats And I Got Lots Of Calls About Cats.

To Understand Animal Thinking You've Got To Get Away From A Language.

The Most Important Thing People Did For Me Was To Expose Me To New Things.

Autism Is A Big Continuum, Going From Someone Who Remains Nonverbal, All The Way Up To Geniuses On Silicon Valley. And Some Kids Are Visual Thinkers Like Me. Other Kids Are Pattern Thinkers - Your Mathematicians, Your Programmers. And There Are Others, They Are Word Thinkers. Uneven Skills. You Need To Take The Thing That They're Good At And You Need To Work On Developing It.