Autism Is Part Of Who I Am.

Language Just Gradually Came In, One Or Two Stressed Words A Time. Before Then, I Would Just Scream. I Couldn't Talk. I Couldn't Get My Words Out. So The Only Way I Could Tell Someone What I Wanted Was To Scream. If I Didn't Want To Wear A Hat, The Only Way I Knew To Communicate Was Screaming And Throwing It On The Floor.

My Life Is Basically My Work.

When You Take A Drug To Treat High Blood Pressure Or Diabetes, You Have An Objective Test To Measure Blood Pressure And The Amount Of Sugar In The Blood. It Is Straight-forward. With Autism, You Are Looking For Changes In Behavior.

The Thing About Being Autistic Is That You Gradually Get Less And Less Autistic, Because You Keep Learning, You Keep Learning How To Behave. It's Like Being In A Play; I'm Always In A Play.

Giving Those Animals [in Shelter] Quality Time - Now, I Have Been In Some Of The Shelters Where The Cats Have Been In Group Housing. Well If You Have A Cat That Never Gets Out Of Sternal Recumbency, Now What That Means Is That [inaudible] - That's A Stressed Cat. If They Lay On Their Side, Then They Are Not Stressed Out.