"The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism."

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Source : "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part II: D". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 13, 2011.

Darold Treffert

#Thinking Quotes #Autism Quotes #Behavior Quotes

“We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?”
“I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.”
“Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.”
“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”
“I will be dust, but dust in love”
“I would never be so arrogant to think that someone should model their life after me. But the idea of possibility the idea that I get to live my dreams out in public, hopefully will show to other folks that it's possible. So I prefer the term 'possibility model' to 'role model.'”
“There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.”

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