“Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. I...” — Temple Grandin Quote

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.

We Anglophones have reasons for adopting strange diets. Increasingly, we live alone. We have an unprecedented choice of foods, and we're not sure what's in them or whether they're good for us. And we expect to customize practically everything: parenting, news, medicines, even our own faces.

Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting.

My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It's something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point.