The Dog Is More Social. I Am

Autism Is A Big Continuum, Going From Someone Who Remains Nonverbal, All The Way Up To Geniuses On Silicon Valley. And Some Kids Are Visual Thinkers Like Me. Other Kids Are Pattern Thinkers - Your Mathematicians, Your Programmers. And There Are Others, They Are Word Thinkers. Uneven Skills. You Need To Take The Thing That They're Good At And You Need To Work On Developing It.

My Mother Was Always Expanding My Art Skills And Getting Me To Paint Different Things. You Always Got To Push Some. And, I Mean, I Learned Basic Things Like Getting Up On Time, How To Shop - You Know, You Don't Touch Things In A Store You're Not Going To Buy. These Things Were Taught Very Young. I Don't See Today Enough Of This Basic, You Know, Basic Skill Teaching.

The People That Were Socially Awkward From My Generation, They All Had Paper Routes And That Taught Them The Discipline Of Work.

My Mind Works Like Google For Images. You Put In A Key Word; It Brings Up Pictures. See Language For Me Narrates The Pictures In My Mind.

People Wouldn’t Have Become Who We Are Today If We Hadn’t Coevolved With Dogs.