**"They Thought I Was Stupid" — Temple Grandin's Fierce Rebuttal to a System That Underestimated Her 💥**
From designing the front end of every Cargill beef plant in North America to redefining how we understand the autistic mind, Temple Grandin proves that thinking differently isn't a flaw—it's a superpower. 🧠✨
In this powerful talk, Grandin dismantles the harmful overgeneralization of autism, urging parents and educators to stop obsessing over labels and start recognizing talent. She reflects on her own early challenges—speech delays, relentless bullying, and exclusion from hands-on learning—and how mentors, real-world experience, and visual thinking helped her carve an extraordinary path.
🔧 She argues fiercely for vocational training, hands-on education, and scrapping the traditional interview process for neurodivergent minds.
🎮 She warns that our overprotective systems and addiction to screens are robbing future innovators of the chance to tinker, build, and grow.
💬 And she challenges us all to **rethink intelligence**—because the kid playing with circuits instead of sentences may just be the one who designs your next breakthrough.
**"We need all kinds of minds,"** she says. And if we listen, we might just save the brilliance hiding in plain sight.
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