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Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image
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Temple Grandin in 2008, from an oral history at
Colorado State University
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You’ve probably heard the story that
Einstein - whose name is synonymous with genius - didn’t seem destined for much when he was a small child. He was years behind other children when it came to learning to talk, he did horribly in school. It seems that
Einstein’s brain just worked differently than most other people’s. And many people these days are saying that Einstein was probably autistic - one of them is Temple Grandin.
Temple Grandin is a professor of animal sciences who’s worked in the meat industry to invent kinder ways to lead cattle to slaughter. She’s also autistic - the high-functioning version known as
Asperger’s Syndrome. Autism, in case you don’t know, is a brain disorder that tends to affect people’s social skills, like the ability to read facial expressions and body language, but it can also mean extraordinary talent in math, music and the visual arts.
Temple Grandin has become something of a celebrity of autism. She’s written books, given
TED talks, and she’s been around the world to speak on the subject.
Claire Danes has even played her in a movie about her life.
As part of our special series, The Experimenters--where we uncover interviews with the icons of science, technology, and innovation…-- we found this interview in the holdings of Colorado State University, where
Temple teaches. In this conversation, Temple’s at her best, explaining for the rest of us what it’s really like to have an autistic brain and how Einstein’s not the only genius who could have been dismissed for being different.
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More Experimenters coming soon:
Carl Sagan,
Dame Stephanie Shirley,
Jane Goodall,
Richard Feynman, and
Buckminster Fuller
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- published: 01 Mar 2016
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