Temple Grandin appeared at the Michigan Theater Thursday.Īnimals, too. "If you're going to tell your autistic child not to cross the street, you better tell them in 10 different places. "Most kids, when you tell them 'don't cross the street without looking,' understand that to mean streets in general," Grandin said. "I feel like an anthropologist on Mars," she replied.Īnd much of her lecture focused on the failures of language to reach the autistic mind. Someone once asked Grandin, who is autistic and has Asperger's syndrome, what it's like to communicate with "normal" people. "And to understand animals, autistic people, mathematics - that requires getting away from verbal language." "I want you to think about thinking," she said before the lecture. Grandin, a professor of animal science, a designer, and an author, focused her lecture on autism, animals, and the sensory-thinking approach both use to understand the world.īeyond that work, Grandin has gained renown for designing humane slaughter facilities and a grading system to assess them.
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