Temple Grandin at TED: The world needs all kinds of minds

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Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works — sharing her ability to “think in pictures,” which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of [...]

Fake Autism?

Recently I answered a questionnaire developed by Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge’s Autism Research Centre. Over the years I’ve secretly held a believe that Autism was sort of fake, children with sever Autism obviously had issues that needed to be delt with in a nurturing way. Not because they had “something” but [...]

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