Guest host Dessa sits down with Grandin to discuss the gift of thinking in pictures. “It’s possible that the most important thing my mother did for me was to not see herself primarily as the mom of a disabled child,” she writes. She also writes that many kids diagnosed with autism today are not appreciated for their unique talents but rather stymied by their diagnoses. She says that non-visual thinkers can learn from people who see and interpret the world as she does. Grandin argues that the world undervalues visual thinkers who have a lot to offer. The man whose name has become synonymous with genius was a bad student and didn’t speak until he was 3- or 4-years-old. She adds it’s like “scrolling through Google Images or watching the short videos on Instagram or TikTok.”Īlbert Einstein was a visual thinker, too.

In her new book, “ Visual Thinking,” Grandin writes that she sees the world “in a series of associated visual images.” Visual Thinking is a perspective shifting book that will open our eyes to the value of a life in picture.Like many people with autism, Temple Grandin thinks in pictures. In this landmark book, international bestselling author and activist Temple Grandin transforms our understanding of how our brains are wired differently.īringing together cutting-edge research and her own experience as a visual thinker, Grandin reveals a ground-breaking new approach to revolutionizing modern structures such as education, health and media so that they equally serve people with all kinds of minds. Hopefully, by doing so, more people will value these differences. However, Temple Grandin’s Visual Thinking calls attention to some of the ways different people think.

In a world engineered for the verbal thinker, those of us with a visual brain can often be overlooked and underestimated. Dividing people simply into the book’s categories of verbal, object visual, and spatial visual, is overly simplistic.

'A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we'll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century' Steve Silberman, bestselling author of NeuroTribesĭo you think in pictures, patterns or words? 'Grandin has helped us understand autism not just as a phenomenon, but as a different and coherent mode of existence that otherwise confounds us' The New York Times

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