The world needs all kinds of minds - Temple Grandin 

I have autism and I’m a landscape architect designing playscapes for children. My current project is designing a sensory garden for autistic children 😊. I read temple grandin’s book as a teenager and thanks to her I found myself a career where my skills were valued. Uni was difficult - as I got stuck in the detail too much and was overwhelmed to deliver on time but I graduated and it’s much easier in actual work as there are co-workers who know your strengths and to keep you on task. You would be amazed how something that seems so obvious to me completely goes over the head of other people. Thank you Temple 🙏🏼

This Ted Talk speech needs to be turned into a children's book. They need to learn early that they have a learning style.

evolution has taken the neurotypical brain and the autistic brain down different paths; this has not led one brain to be better than the other, only different; the world needs both kinds of minds, i agree

She is still under-appreciated. Autism is under-appreciated.

"Get these kids turned on". Ok, Temple Grandin is great. I see that many of my teachers are retired engineers or biologists and they're often the best teachers.

We need more people like this in this world. My daughter is one of these beautiful people. Shes 7 and I am very protective over her. She is high functioning and she WILL make a difference in this world. ❤❤❤

I love hearing her story. Makes me feel less alone with my autism and adhd ❤

This makes me incredibly hopeful, my son was recently diagnosed with mild autism. His early intervention teacher was saying many of these same things about teaching him with the things he is fixated upon I know he is going to be in good hands.

She doesn't say that, she's saying we have to work with them. ALL kinds of minds toguether.

I'm definitely a pattern thinker. Music and math were always my loves.

Number two here, finished calculas at age 14 from stanford, I STILL can't remember my multiplication table. I also managed to draw in perspective at age 4, but to this day I have trouble reading something as simple as Harry Potter..

I can so relate! I am an extremely visual thinker and I LOVE art, but my reading and writing skills are very poor i guess as a result of that. I am so happy that there are others out there who are different and I agree our education system really needs to understand that many different minds need many different forms of teaching. My Calculus teacher doesn't like how i am too visual and not algebraic enough. Thank you for making me feel special and important for the crazy mind I do have =)

the book she writes: "Thinking in pictures" have no picture in it at all !!!

It is 1:00am on 8/23/23 and I am up praising God for me finding and watching Dr. Grandin's video. For the past two hours i had been trying to gather information on my 8 year old grandson's case of mild autism. It is showing more concern as time goes by but her talk has greatly helped me understand what his mind is like. Thank you so very much doctor. I saw your movie years ago and plan on seeing it again and reading any of your books that I can get my hands on. Thank you and God bless you.

She's under-valued. And yeah, I always excelled with hands on classes. :) She's amazing.

Temple Grandin you are one of my most favorite people on this planet! Peace sister! We LOVE you in Alberta and in Canada! Keep speaking, we are listening! Love ya! xo from B.C xo

the nerdiest kid i know is a comm major lol...he cannot even talk to one person without being anxious. it's my goal this semester to make him relaxed in public

The absolute best speaker on Autism! Thanks for this inspiring talk.

What a fascinating women. Loved this.

You never forget meeting your heroes. I, for one, met Dr. Grandin and she is awesome. I actually saw her on her tour when she was at UNC-Wilmington Trask Coliseum. She's awesome and I understand where she's coming from.

They keep labeling brilliant minds like mine schizophrenic and bipolar and ADD when we probably should have been labeled with Asperger's. This is unfortunate.

her other book 'animals in translation' is very good indeed... densely packed with thought provoking information

Watched the movie about her when I was in school and felt very similar to her. Never got my diagnosis till this year. Hearing her talk about how she thinks helps me a lot understand that there are people like me and I'm not alone.

Wow!!!❤❤❤ What a great talk.. Thank you Dr. Temple Grandin.. This is the kind of thinking we need to get the students where they have to be.. To be a successful in their own fields. Not the bubble world but the real world..

I'm Autistic, and I am a photo realistic/ verbal mind. I am awfl at math, and I can't draw to save my life.

I have autism, and I like being different. I don't see myself as "disabled", although my mum still seems to think I am...

Temple Grandin I trust and believe God will allow my grandchildren to become independent. Temple Grandin you are the greatest role model ever, to inspire people to understand, to know that young children in the spectrum have same possibilities in life. Therefore, my grandchildren will succeed in life, despite their father's attitude against them.

Whoa she is real and she is alive. I really loved the movie!

Oh, she is...She has Aspergers which is the highest functioning Autism. You should read her books and see her movie. She had a real interesting beginning. I have it too.

Wow! Amazing! Thank you, TED and Temple. I was never diagnosed as autistic but I identified with many parts of the Pattern Thinking mind, and I identified with "bottom-up" thinking, where all the details catch my attention and I have to remember to get an overview first. I'm a self-taught software engineer, process improvement analyst ... and RU-vid personality (because I'm also a ham in front of a camera!). :)

Now I know why I can do arithmetic but not math, using algebraic formulas. I seem to be a mix of visual and pattern thinker. My memories as a.baby are.still.with me as.pictures and I am 74.

Interesting. I saw the small letters first, but my sister, who is also on the spectrum (and probably more "severe" than me in most ways) saw the big letters first.

End result: she has found a more "humane" form of slaughter. I am a meat eater, but I question the utilitarian effects of this form of consciousness.

This was soooo good. I learned a lot!

No, they're not, but they're being neglected of what they need more than most kids because they can't always be taught the same way most kids do. Their brains don't work the same, so they need to be taught in a way they understand, and not just thrown to the side when they're the only kid who doesn't understand something in a classroom. It's like any kid, none of them should be left behind in a classroom, and most of the time the kids being left behind are kids with these types of thinking.

I'm no genius but Ive watched all these TED talks. this is the best one. everyone interested in the brain should watch this.

Autism is what I have and this ted talk really helps me come to terms with my specific form of autism.

I adopted to my sound surroundings I don’t need music because I sing In my head

Dr. Grandin, please know how very much I appreciate you! Your ability and willingness to explain how you see/think is awesome to me! Thank you for advocating for children to have hands-on activities and jobs. Blessings to you :-)

That's sweet... The world embraces Temple I get driven into the wilderness. WOTL

She is amazing. She definitely helped me to understand my son alittle better!!

Shes so inspiring, I'm watching the movie about her right now.

I think I'm autistic to some degree. But I don't want to go to a doctor for a diagnosis. I don't like going to doctors in general and I don't know how a written diagnosis should benefit me. I know I am different, I know my quirks, my strengths and my shortcomings. So, does a diagnosis actually make any difference?

Lol she is so similar to Scotty Kilmer on RU-vid.

That was over 20 minutes, and I blinked, and it was all over. Some videos are less than 5 minutes long, and I can't even finish them. Too many gimmicks and distractions. Maybe I have autism or Asperger's or something.

perhaps it could be that anxiety (maybe related to social situations - cause you're mentioning "stage" as in performance/social performance) puts your sensory system into fight-or-flight mode; or perhaps the reverse - sensory stimuli causing the anxiety

We need to take kids in our outdated educational systems and start developing intelligence schools that are geared towards one of our 8 or 9 geniuses, not just pushing a kid that hates our current model of what we think is good for them in our standardized education system. This system we currently operate in is killing the geniuses that could potentially save the world. I guess at this point moving forward towards our 5th extinction, that conformity and maintaining the status quo will eventually be our undoing.

Thinking in pictures...I do that too. I'm 38 and I didn't know until this year that other people don't think that way. Maybe that's why I get so damn frustrated that things I think are SO obvious aren't to other people. Nobody ever told me that a lot of things aren't obvious until I got a boyfriend. I thought maybe he was just a little bit on the slow side. But no, that's almost everyone. It's really...weird. I took a test recently and I'm on the spectrum, too. I wish I'd known before now, but I'm glad I'm like me. I need to read this book. This lady owns her ASD and rocks it. I need to learn how to do this.

I am visual, abstract and verbal. I can read other people okay, I am great at metaphor, I could visualize 3d geometry in a way that my teachers and classmates could not, and my basic algebra skills are great. But for most of my life I went around in a state of perpetual stage-fright. I don't really do that now, but I still feel like a lot of the time I am in sensory and emotional overload. What is that? I wish to hell I knew.

So now i may have a minute idea why things like logic is very alien to me.... simply can't understand it at all, no matter how hard i try.... I love music... and also, mathematics was not a big trouble at school level either.... and, funnily enough, the first thing i honestly saw, were those little s and h letters in her slide; it took me a good 5 seconds to realise what she was saying about "autistic minds always looking at the small details"~(!) Maybe I'm part of this great spectrum too.... 💜

Respect. This was a rare glimpse into a very unique mind. I agree with everything this woman said. Brilliant!

When she was talking about the midwest teachers not knowing what to do with those on the spectrum, I agree 100 percent. Ohio is very much a 50/50 shot on if you get a teacher that's compassionate and understanding on the Autism spectrum.

She has been my mentor from a distance. I am so happy that she has had enough passion and care to do what she did.

Great conversation Temple... thanks for the insights about autism... I agree, there's a lot of untapped knowledge and talent. Real stuff to change the real world!

Interesting, when were you diagnosed with PDD-NOS? What did the diagnosis exactly consist of? You seem to be extremely high-functioning in your use of language communication, did you have a special teacher or aid?

She gave the keynote address at conference I am attending this morning and I absolutely loved every minute of it! Amazing person!!!

i saw the movie about her before i saw this talk, she's still alive ! :)

I myself have Autism Spectrum Disorder. You're right, we all need all kinds of minds

thank you madam, good thing someone else agrees with what i've been saying for years

“ think 💭 in pictures , not 💭 think in language ......,” ✨great 🧠✨

She is a queen ❤

REAL change in the REAL world. Simple and brilliant. And I'm relieved to see that she appreciated the movie as much as I did.

Wait. How do you think verbally when thinking about churches? Do I have autism?

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I wish I had independence. I'm posting hoping it will create a ripple of events that will cause a chain reaction to in turn affect me and cause this dream to come true. What you put out into this universe will exist and come back to you. Make a wish. The desire alone will attract the nessisary outcome of what is to be expected.

I'm a Verbal Mind! I know every fact about everything. :-))

Super cristal clear speech on the subject and we all benefit from it! Thanks!

You talk fast and I tend to zone out on verbal talk. Need more visual cues to follow because auditory is a problem for me but I consider myself a VISUAL and a PATTERN learner. I'm very good with Algebra. I'm very math and artistic!

The low income communities in Central Valley does not have science classes. It’s very sad that the school district took science classes out.

i think in pictures too! it must be why i love filmmaking

I think these are great tips for all children even ones not diagnosed with autism or asperger. Learn manners, learn responsibility, learn a trade, focus on your talents.

this explains why I was bad at Algebra - Photo Realistic Visual Thinker.... however, eventually made it past Algebra and to CALC 1 in college (Economics)

Temple has the best shirts too! Dogs have pee mail, we have email.

@17:00 but how 20hours of one to one teaching? 2-4 do not hv that much focus span (even with long breaks inbetweeb).. Wat sort of 1:1 teaching?

Interesting, I tend to worry about this stuff. A friend of mine got diagnosed with ADHD after she had seen a video of Russell Barkley on youtube, she took a subjective questionnaire(DSRM-V) and got the diagnosis after 10mins of conversation with a psychiatrist and is now taking Ritalin. This kind of approach worries me, ADHD/ADD is underdeveloped frontal cortex, you cannot see that from a subjective questionnaire. And I see alot of these tendencies of diagnosis with Autism as well

I think every teacher would agree that every person needs 'special' attention. But the problem is that one teacher is responsible for sometimes over 100 children. So he can't do what is really needed...

Details can be overwhelming sometimes. It's hard to filter all the noise and chaos in a classroom or the shouting outbursts of the teachers. People don't always get my jokes or references and mental hyperlinks. I get more specific pictures. I worked hard to get perro as a picture instead of a translated word but it was harder than memorization but sticks with me decades later. I can visualize a painting and then try to match that. Some people had difficulty with organic chemistry because of the 3D thinking but I had trouble with the wordy descriptions but not the concept. Also, I miss some social cues but pick up ones others don't. I also tend to be good at classes others weren't in Pharmacy school but dropped it for a marriage that wasn't as compatible. She didn't really understand me and got mad when, after a few hours condensing notes to a quick visual reference, I studied an hour for a test in my ex's favorite topic she studied all day to do worse on. I can't get the "hints" teachers drop and sometimes don't read subtle cues she would drop. I often didn't expect her anger when she blew up and once fell asleep to wake up with her still yelling so... yeah... we weren't compatible with both our issues.

When I was younger I was good in art Like making creative stuff or drawing I never took time to keep doing it

I was looking at my old IQ test results from my ADHD/psychoeducational assessment when I was 11, and looking back, you can def tell I was autistic. I even remember the psychologist saying it was strange that I was so "spread out" amongst the categories. I am absolutely a verbal thinker, and I think it's so cool how you can see it on my tests. I took this test when I was 11. They told my parents the results were skewed because I couldn't pay attention during the test, and they expected my score to go up several points when I started meds. Verbal Comprehension: High average, 116 composite, 86th percentile Visual spatial: Low average, 89 composite, 23rd percentile Fluid Reasoning: Average, 100 composite, 50th percentile Working memory: High average, 117 composite, 87th percentile Processing speed: Average, 108 composite, 70th percentile Full scale IQ: High average, 111 composite, 77th percentile Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement: Academic Skills Battery: 121, 92nd percentile Math Concepts & Applications: 117, 87th percentile Letter & Word Recognition: 124, 95th percentile Written expression: 113, 81st percentile Math Computation: 91, 27th percentile Spelling: 123, 94th percentile Reading Comprehension: 129, 97th percentile I don't really feel like going through the entire supplemental composite currently, but here are the highlights: Reading Understanding Composite: 131, 98th percentile - Reading Comprehension: 135, 99th percentile - Reading Vocabulary: 122, 93rd percentile Comprehension Composite: 132, 98th percentile - Reading Comprehension - Listening Comprehension: 124, 95th percentile Orthographic Processing Composite: 132, 98th percentile I am VERY clearly a verbal thinker based on my test results, and that definitely checks out. I don't see pictures when I think whatsoever, and I cannot draw to save my life. I have better verbal social skills than most autistic people I know, but I absolutely cannot pick up on nonverbal cues. I've always been incredible at reading, but it's so boring because I cannot get lost in a story. I can't imagine the story. All I can do is read the words on the page. It's kind of frustrating, actually. I excelled in school up until high school, where a severe bout of depression really messed with my motivation. I distinctly remember taking a test in 4th grade, where my English teacher said, "ALL of you failed this test except for one of you. One of you scored a 100%. LordPepe is the only one who passed. The rest of you will be given a retest." Looking back on it, it was probably her fault. 4th graders shouldn't fail tests. I don't remember what the test was, but I think it had something to do with spelling? Anyways, that was my ramble for the day.

As a ADD personality, I have to be aware of it's impact upon me, not fight against them, or attempt to suppress them. I'm impressed you recognize how important that is at your age. You have learned to adjust to your strengths and weaknesses, accepting them instead of wishing they didn't exist. You mother is reacting as all mothers do: Fearful and protective. I encourage you to teach her what you have learned: acceptance of limitations, not trying to eliminate them with over-adjustment.

I would like to meet her

Thanks for this! I've been wishing for a good recipe for a spicy slaw for so long. I've only had one once, at KC Joe's.

I am autistic, and have also worked with animals all of my life. I agree that we need all kinds of minds. If minds are sentient and aware, they should be assumed to be competent and feeling. This includes animals. After knowing this over a lifetime of learning from animals, I do not agree with Grandin that pigs, smarter than dolphins, should be put in gas chambers to die slow, painful deaths. I don't believe gorillas should be killed for food, nor cows. I can tell you after 60 years there is no difference between the way my mind works and the way that the animals around me think and feel. Until we stop underestimating, commodifying, or being cruel to other minds, of all kinds, we will never make progress in acceptance and harmony.

My three heroes in life are: Prof. Temple Grandin, Ms. Oprah Winfrey, and Dr. Jane Goodall.

Wait, people don't think in pictures?! Well, hellp fellow person who also sees in pictures! :D That also sort of explains why some of my friends are extremely smart in math. But with my strange picture thinking mind I can see through the eyes of wht other people are going through and I cna also imagine what history was like from a soldiers point of view or something or have awesome movies in my head when reading. I wonder if any of my friends have a mind like me. Time to find out! :D

I have so much respect for her

Autistic here, let’s build the future. Vegan as well, we can build a better future for the animals. JUDGE ME! Hahaha

She's Amazing.

me thinking recently how great it would have been to have again more engineers and have interest-based clubs at schools, and now I listen to this speech and I know this is the autism in me speaking, haha!

Speak your mind sista! What u say makes sense. Happy u and people like u exist.

Her life speaks volumes. I felt bad reading how her parents divorced when she was 15. I find myself wondering if her father ever actually loved her not.

1:24 me: *sees picture* "ssssssssssssss" "hhhhhhhhhhhhh" ...video: "and the autistic minds picks out the little letters" me: "shit."

I think in video with the mute button pressed. ... with really bad sound system.

I have learned so much from Temple Gradin

I love watching her speak.

I FUCKEN LOVE THE HUG MACHINE

Autism represent!

she's perfect for TED and her insights are spot on.

this is cool my best friends great aunt is temple grandin

She was diagnosed as a child. She is autistic. You may need to read more about what autism actually is, and meet more people who are autistic.