Autistic Symptoms - You Can't Talk

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I had all the classic autistic symptoms when I was really young, but my mother always encouraged my drawing skill. She would just draw a single horse head over and over again. And she said, well, let's just do the whole horse. And let's do the saddle, the bridle, a lot of things associated with the horse. This really plays into something that is just very important to me right now as well,. which is you were diagnosed as brain damage. Well, it's very frustrating when you can't talk. Yeah.

Temple Grandin was born in 1947 at a time when words like neurodivergent and neurotypical had yet to enter the lexicon, at a time when autism was not well understood, and since she didn’t develop speech until much later than most children she might have led a much different life if it hadn’t been for people around her who worked very hard to open up a space for her to thrive and explore her talents and abilities. In this episode we discuss all that as well as her latest book, Visual Thinking, all about three distinct ways that human brains create human minds to make sense of the world outside of their skulls.