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The true measure of an education isn't what grades a student gets today, but where they are 10 years later.

— Temple Grandin Temple Grandin: Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All" Guest essay, New York Times (2023)

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The meaning of life is if something that you did made something better.

If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.

(About the workplace) Tyrants who get into power make life miserable for everyone.

They may ask why nature or God created such horrible conditions as autism, manic depression, and schizophrenia. However, if the genes that caused these conditions were eliminated there might be a terrible price to pay.

I don't like radical anything; left or right. I have a radical dislike of radicals.

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