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Sounds True.com, guest is Temple Grandin. Temple is a renowned American

author, Animal Behavior Expert, an advocate for autistic people.

Her inventions of a hug machine

to pacify people with autism

and curved corrals to reduce panic in animals during slaughter have brought her considerable

popularity across the world. She's written numerous books on autism and

animal welfare including Animals in Translation, The Autistic Brain, and Thinking in Pictures.

Her life has been transformed into an inspiring film, Temple Grandin, starring Claire Danes, and has won several Emmy Awards in a Golden Globe.

Temple is currently a professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University and today Temple and I spoke about

the differences between verbal and visual thinkers and how to build a bridge of

understanding between the two.

We talked about the importance of helping people on the autistic spectrum, invest time

in energy in what they can do do not in what they're lacking. We also talked

about temples observations working with animals and how as a nonverbal

thinker she feels a special kinship with the animal world.

Finally, Temple and I spoke about her view of spirituality and how she sees the Hubble deep space field when people ask her questions about her

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