Temple Grandin Quotes

My biggest challenge is my severely autistic son.

I have a son, and my son has autism. There's certain things that I deal with that a lot of people don't deal with.

I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

It's different when your son is not typical, and you have to deal with him and handle him every single day.

My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.

Mom worked with autistic children.

We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

You go into another time zone when you are a parent of an autistic child, where any micro movement in a positive direction is such a cause for celebration.

It's very, very, very, very difficult, you know any parent with ­children with any kind of special needs is very difficult.

My heart bleeds, goes out for families with kids with autism.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing. Kids get heavy. Quite literally. They're heavy to lift up when they're throwing tantrums.

You want your kids to be developing at the right level, and everyone says, 'They'll be fine, they'll get there.' But you get concerned. You just want to make sure there's nothing else.

When you have responsible children, half the battle is over. So, you don't have to worry. But you are concerned. The concern will never go, and you'll always be conscious about them.

It is very tough to bring up a child on your own.

Unfortunately, I have a child who doesn't sleep.

I don't know how it is with other people's relationships, but my wife is always much more tired than me because she works much harder looking after the children, which is an endless battle - a lot of it is battling with them to stop battling with each other.

My heart goes out to kids with autism.

Taking care of children was not something I was good at.

Dealing with kids, you're always going to have to deal with something. I mean, they're kids.

By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

Suddenly we have a baby who poops and cries, and we are trying to calm, clean up, and pin things together all at once. Then as fast as we learn to cope--so soon--it is hard to recall why diapers ever seemed so important. The frontiers change, and now perhaps we have a teenager we can't reach.

There are moments when you love babies, and you're like, "God, they are the reason why we exist." Then they start crying, and you're like "God! Jesus!"