You Can't Punish A Child Who Is

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.

If You See A Child With Autistic-like Behaviors At Age Two And Three, The Worst Thing You Can Do Is Just Let Them Sit And Watch Tv All Day. That's Just The Worst Thing You Can Do. You Need To Have A Teacher Working With That Child, Working On Teaching Language, Working On Social Interaction, Working On Getting Them Interested In Different Things, And Keeping Their Brain Connected To The World.

How Do You Have A Think In Pictures? Well, You Have To Sort The Pictures Into Categories. You Know, For Example, A Dog Knows That, You Know, There's Good People And There's Bad People. And I Talked To A Lady The Other Day Where Her Dog Was Afraid Of People With White Beards Because She Had Adopted Him From An Animal Shelter And Somebody With A White Beard Had Abused Him. And This Dog Was Now Afraid Of Everybody That Had A White Beard. That Was The Bad Category.

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

I Believe There Is A Reason Such As Autism, Severe Manic-depression, And Schizophrenia Remain In Our Gene Pool Even Though There Is Much Suffering As A Result.