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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Dr. Temple Grandin

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Best-selling author, scientist, and trailblazer in autism research, Dr. Temple Grandin’s new book “Visual Thinking” draws on cutting-edge research and her own lived experience to reframe the conversation on neurodiversity and different types of thinkers.

Transcript

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The problem we've got with autism is you're going from Elon Musk and Einstein to somebody

0:12.2

as an adult who can't dress themselves and we call it the same thing.

0:15.5

That's horrible over generalization by the verbal bankers.

0:22.1

From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.

0:29.5

For 18 years Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about

0:33.4

what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working

0:37.5

on.

0:38.5

On this episode, Temple Grandin talks about autism, neurodiversity, and different kinds of

0:44.0

thinking.

0:45.0

I think the first step is we've got to realize the different kinds of thinking exist.

0:48.6

I think it's hard for some verbal bankers to imagine thought without words.

0:56.4

Dr. Temple Grandin is a scientist and animal behaviorist, and she has had a profound

1:01.7

effect on how humanly livestock in this country are treated.

1:07.0

She's also had a huge effect on the way we understand people on the autism spectrum.

1:12.0

Drawing on her own experience as an autistic person, she has written or co-written many

1:17.7

groundbreaking books exploring autism and celebrating neurodiversity.

1:23.6

Her first book, Emergence, was published in 1986 and it changed the way the world views

1:30.5

autism.

1:31.5

Her most recent book, Visual Thinking, the hidden gifts of people who think in pictures,

1:37.0

patterns, and abstractions is changing the way people think about thinking.

1:43.0

She's been recognized on the list of time magazines 100 most influential people in the

1:48.2

world.

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