It Is Never Too Late To Expand

What Parents And Teachers And Caregivers Did With Me That Actually Worked And A Lot Of That Was The Old Fashion 50s Upbringing. They Just Gave The Instruction When I Did Something Wrong - Life Was More Structured. So Basically It's [my Work] Based On Experiences With Me That Worked And It Was Teachers And Parents That Made Me Have Those Experiences.

I Cannot Emphasize Enough The Importance Of A Good Teacher.

My Life - Autism's An Important Part Of It, But It Bothers Me When I See Kids Where Autism And Their Autism Is The Only Thing They Think About. I'd Rather Have Them Think About, You Know, Some Art Work They Were Gonna Do Or Some Science They Wanted To Do.

One Thing I'd Like To Just Keep On Doing Is I Want To Educate People About Animal Behavior And About Autism. I've Been Doing Autism Talks For The Last 20 Years And There Still Are People Out There That Do Not Want To, They Can't Recognize That These Sensory Problems Are Real. That, For Some Of These Kids When That Fire Alarm Goes Off, That Really Hurts The Ears, It's A Really Real Thing.

I Played Around With Vegetarianism Back In The '70s. One Thing, My Physiology Just Got To Have Animal Protein. I Get Hypoglycemic, I Get All Light-headed Unless I Eat Animal Protein.