“And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look ...” — Temple Grandin Quote

“And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.”

“Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.”

“There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.”

“The Korean government is the first to declare that if you replace people with machines you have to pay a tax. It's a tax on robots. They make private companies internalise the social cost of unemployment. Social benefit is not the same as private benefit. We have to realise this.”

“I think that therapy is something that we all can or do benefit from.”

“Although everyone does benefit from lower-priced goods and services, people also care greatly about the chance to be productively employed and the quality of their work. Declining employment opportunities feel real and immediate; the rise in real incomes brought by lower prices does not.”