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If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.

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We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.

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If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.

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I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

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My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.

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From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

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Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

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I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

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I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

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