People Can Live Up To High Standards,

I'm Seeing Too Many Smart Kind Of Socially Awkward Kids, A Lot Milder Than I Was, Not Getting Employment Because They're Not Learning Job Skills.

I Am A Big Believer In Early Intervention.

The Thing Is, Autism Is All Different, You Know, Variables. And You Start Out With A Certain Amount Of, You Know, The Point Where The Differences In The Brain Are Going To Just Be A Personality Variant And, Like, For Very Mild Asperger's. But You Get Into More Severe Kinds Of Autism Where There's Obvious Speech Delay, Obvious Abnormal Behavior In A Two And Three-year-old Child, You Know, The Initial Neurology Is Different From Case To Case. But All Children With Autism Are Going To Do Better If They Get Really Good Educational Intervention.

I Can Remember The Frustration Of Not Being Able To Talk. I Knew What I Wanted To Say, But I Could Not Get The Words Out, So I Would Just Scream.

If Language Naturally Evolves To Serve The Needs Of Tiny Rodents With Tiny Rodent Brains, Then What's Unique About Language Isn't The Brilliant Humans Who Invented It To Communicate High-level Abstract Thoughts. What's Unique About Language Is That The Creatures Who Develop It Are Highly Vulnerable To Being Eaten.