Temple Grandin Read by Kat Taylor
Rebel Girls
Rebel Girls
4.5 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Once upon a time, there was a girl who thought in pictures. |
| 0:07.0 | Her name was Temple. |
| 0:10.0 | It was 1947. |
| 0:13.0 | Temple lived in a large White House in Massachusetts. |
| 0:18.0 | She loved spinning in the swing that hung from the maple tree in her backyard. |
| 0:23.6 | She loved spinning lots of things, actually, from coins to jar lids. |
| 0:29.6 | Spinning helped her block out the noisy, scary world. |
| 0:35.6 | For Temple, a whirring fan sounded like a jet engine. |
| 0:41.6 | Bright lights hurt her head, |
| 0:43.9 | and the white petticoat she wore to church on Sundays |
| 0:47.0 | felt like needles poking at her skin. |
| 0:52.0 | Temple struggled to speak, |
| 0:53.6 | and people around her often sounded like they were talking gibberish. |
| 0:58.0 | It made her so frustrated, she'd wail, break things, flap her arms, and cry. |
| 1:06.0 | Some people thought Temple was stupid because she had tantrums and spoke so rarely. |
| 1:13.6 | Temple was smart though. She just didn't think like everyone else did. |
| 1:19.6 | Instead of words, her head was full of pictures of everything she'd ever experienced. |
| 1:32.2 | And one day, Temple would use that brain full of images to prove how smart she really was. |
| 1:51.9 | I'm Kat Taylor, and this is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, a fairy tale podcast about the rebel women who inspire us. This week, Temple Grandin. |
| 2:01.7 | When Temple was a baby, she pushed away her mom's hugs. |
| 2:06.8 | At age two, when most toddlers start talking, Temple said nothing. |
| 2:12.8 | Her parents took her to many doctors and finally to a child psychiatrist. |
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