Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Temple Grandin at TED.
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I always get such a kick out of watching/listening to her.
Too bad we are all so hung up on labels – this is and would be a great talk if it were about the natural and varient ways in which people learn and think – why do we need to talk about Aspergers and Autism. Why not, if we do this not label non-autistic people as ‘bland’, non-pattern, etc thinkers and do a TED talk on them!!
Joanne
Joanne: Whether Dr. Grandin does it purposely or not, she’s been cast as a poster child for high achieving people with autism who are articulate and social enough to talk about the experience openly.
I totally agree with you on labels although when people are coming to terms with learning issues it’s quite useful to have a label/word that not only describes one’s experience (loosely) but also allows one to find others who have had similar experiences to commiserate with.
I was a poster child for high achieving “dyslexic” who found technology helpful and could talk about it. Had I not had the “dyslexic” label it would have been difficult to find an audience as many non-dyslexic people were finding technology helpful in the late ’70s and ’80s as well.
Would my life have been better without the label? Maybe so. But, I used it to not only find other people who shared my experience but to shape a twenty year career.
As a mother of both an Asperger’s child and a dyslexic child, the labels are required in order to get them the help they need to succeed. I got so much advise to not “label” my child. But the way the educational system is designed there is not way my children would be as successful as they are today. We still have a long way to go. I agree with Richards comments and can only hope my children find the success. Education and society tend to not want to see these people as different equals but only as different.