When You're A Weird Geek, The Way

I Don't Like The Way Most People Think. It's Imprecise. I Find That When Parents Ask Me Questions, They Ask Very Imprecise Questions. They Say, "my Kid Has Behavioral Problems At School." Well, I Have To Say, "what Kind Of Problems? Is He Hitting? Is He Rude? Does He Rock In Class?" I Need To Narrow Questions To Specifics. I Am Very Pragmatic And Intellectual, Not Emotional. I Do Get Great Satisfaction When A Parent Says, "i Read Your Book, And It Really Helped Me."

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.

I've Got My One Area I Work In And I Want To Educate People About Autism And I Also Want To Improve, You Know, Animal Handling And Transport And Make A Real Change Out In The Field On The Ground.

I Try To Return My Calls But I Get Inundated With Emails And I Can't Answer Them All. So Often, I Have To Refer To Them My Webpage And The Frequently Asked Questions Or Refer Them To The Books. But If They Take The Time To Call Me, I Try To Call Back. You Know, I Am Really Busy, But Just Happened To Have An Hour In The Hotel Room And Had Some Time Before I Have To Meet Some People About 20 Minutes.

You Take Somebody - One Person Has Definitely Got Autism, You Got Another Person That Maybe Has Some Of Those Traits And Maybe There's Some Anxiety, Depression, Some Epilepsy Or Something In The Family History. Put Them Together, You're More Likely To Have A Severely Autistic Kid Than If You Don't Have Any Neurological Problems In The Family History.