How Language Separates Us From the Beast

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I don't know if I could graduate in high school today. Algebra becomes this sorting mechanism? It's a gatekeeper. Holland on their education system and Italy have looked them up at ninth grade. The kid can go university track or tech track and they don't stick their nose up at it. And that's why they're making that equipment and we're not.

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.