Temple Grandin: "The Autistic Brain"

As a father of an autistic child, this woman gives me immense hope and makes me proud of my boy.

Temple was my graduate instructor. She was the first person to recognize my own autism. She helped me focus my talents. Its nice to listen to her presentations and recall how much we think alike. I struggle in my present work because they prefer to march in a straight line.

I am 71 and am hearing this for the first time. It felt like she was talking to me. 😊

I wish she was running schools. We desperately need someone like her to run the department of education.

It's so sad that it takes this amazing woman to point out that having different ways of looking at things is important. We can not pretend that everyone thinks the same, that only one way of thinking is "correct". We need to accept each other's differences and appreciate them.

Temple was discovered by media in the early 2000’s. I couldn’t keep her books on the shelf of the bookstore where I worked. She is a great mentor to us on earth.

I am 66 years old and have just discovered this video. Temple Grandin has described Autism so well that I finally feel like I fit in this world. I have Autism and struggled with everything she has described, every last thing. Wow wow and wow again the light switch just went on. I Like every minute of this video. What a relief.

i’m autistic and i’ve been struggling a lot in life because i had an abusive family and did not have support to nurture my unique way of thinking. i’m thankful i am still alive because there have been many times where i have lost hope for myself thinking that i will never able to handle how overwhelming the world is, and it’s doubly hard when you weren’t raised with the support to learn the skills to cope with it. but having watched this video for the first time i can firmly say that this gave me hope that i can change the world. i am so amazed by her enthusiasm and passion and knowledge. this made me realize that i have to accept myself and be unapologetically myself. and the life i want to live is one where i experience all that i can and amass as much knowledge as i can about my interests and create an expansive portfolio of my work. i have so much creativity and ideas inside of me and this reminded me that i need to share them.

She,s right , the schools took out all the daily skills training. ( sewing) (cooking) the students really lost out , when schools got rid of these class,es

I worked with a boy who was 5 at the time who is so incredibly smart.I went to put a paper in his backpack and saw he had a periodic table tucked in there. At first I thought it was something that just caught his eye but curiosity got the better of me so I asked him. He not only told me what it was but when I pointed to the symbols he correctly identified each and every one. At six he knew all the planets, could spell them and tell you how many moons they did or did not have. Definitely has a science brain. But socially he struggles. I just find working with autistic kids fascinating, challenging and rewarding.

She deserves the Nobel Prize or any other equivalent. She has more guts than a room full of prize fighters.

Love TG's comment on letting your work talk for you. A neighbor boy lacked social skills and had a hard finding a job after college. His hobby is electronics and robotics. He landed a job at a robotics firm by showing them his work. Now he makes a good living from his hobby.

She was lucky to have the right motivators, mentors and teachers, unfortunately too many don't and fall thru the cracks into oblivion!

I absolutely love this woman. She reminds me of all the great teachers I grew up with that KNEW how to teach that encouraged your strengths.

What a gift she is to all of us whether we're on the spectrum or not. And what she's done for animal welfare is beyond my ability to verbalize. So. many of the most valuable things I've learned in my life I learned from horses. I love the way she talks. No nonsense, just the facts. Brilliant.

I feel like every parent today should watch this.

ASD was missed in schools in my day if you were really high functioning, had creative self ingenuity and bit of help along the way. I could not learn particularly in junior high and high school. My parents knew something was wrong. They put me in a community college for a lot of years where I had teachers like Temple. I went a lot further in life because of them. Good mentors. Most people on the spectrum are so overwhelmed they forget how smart they really are so they just stay inside. My parents MADE me do things. Sometimes that went the wrong way, sometimes not.

My 3 year old son is autistic and this video not only gives me skills to nurture him, it gives me hope that he will live a wonderful and fulfilling life.Thank you.

I'm autistic and so is my son. At about 23 minutes I almost cried. People always acted like I was weird for how I spoke to my son, how I taught him things. Every concept needed an example, like when they ask for word origin at a Spelling Bee. It takes longer, and it meant I was having (in my mind) full conversations with him at 3 years old. When he got to school they said he couldn't possibly be autistic; his language skills weren't impaired. The "impairments" didn't show up until 1st grade, when he started having meltdowns and problems socializing with peers.

I'm a neurotypical author co-writing with a number of neurodivergent authors with a set of neurodivergent characters, some of which are autistic. This video is so wonderful in getting the word out that autism is something to be valued in society, as well as educating the general public to better understand our peers. Thank you, Grandin.