The Mind of a Visual Thinker: Photo-Realistic Images

Tune in for this unusual presentation on autism by someone with autism. Animal Science professor Temple Grandin, who designs livestock handling facilities, discusses the workings of the mind of a visual thinker like herself. She discusses how she uses concrete visual metaphors — including a nonverbal video library of particular people, places and associations — to make sense of the world around her. Series: "M.I.N.D. Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [6/2007] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 12871]

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[theburninator88]

video actually starts at 5:36

[VTECsqznN2O]

I think its hilarious, personally, that people think vaccines cause people like me. When there have clearly been people in history, before vaccines that displayed these traits.

What I don't find funny, but sick actually is people trying to prevent mild austim...god forbid your kid is born less than "perfect" and you'll have to deal with a child that is not neurotypical. I find it sad, that I can be brilliant in many things, and parents don't want kids like me, or like Temple here, to be born.

[glennirish]

thinking in words seems very strange to me

[Lunartechno]

@RyumitsuHayabusa I'm sorry but one day you will realize that its not as mysterious as you wish it to be. There is a proven link between autism and vaccines.. And its not just chemicals in vaccines but it comes from our diet.. And it causes a reaction in our genes.. I'm sorry but you shouldn't trust the people who discredit people wiht legitimate concerns about the problem of autism and the vaccine line. No offense to you., but you need to develope more understanding on this correlation.

[RyumitsuHayabusa]

That autism/vaccine farce is over 13 years old already, and it was followed by a deluge of new studies and information that have found NO link whatsoever.

MANY MANY new studies. NO link. Fact.

One single early study discredited. False.

Get it?

[RyumitsuHayabusa]

@Lunartechno No, the idea of a link has been disproven as a sham, and the individual behind the "studies" ,whom I shall not name, was exposed and discredited for having fabricated those false claims. Please don't potentiate this farce.

[Lunartechno]

@VTECsqznN2O i still disagree

[VTECsqznN2O]

@Lunartechno no, the link is NOW, now that kids are getting TOO MANY vaccines, all with much more mercury than before. I was NOT pumped full of mercury and 20+ vaccines, anyone born before 1990 or so was not over vaccinated...so I'm sorry, I don't believe that vaccines are the cause of autism. I think genes are the cause of autism, perhaps our "enviroment" is triggering som'thing that is dormant in most people. But I am still of the belief that most of us are born this way. :) :)

[Lunartechno]

@VTECsqznN2O its been established that there is a direct link between autism and increased rate of vaccinations. And there is a direct link between vaccine taking and infant mortality rates. That's been a big deal in the news as well.

[ScottieDM]

How odd it is that someone who has zero ability with visual thinking, is considered normal.

[ninjatoothpaste]

I get sound sensitivity too, not all the time though, I think it has to do with my vestibular damage.

[ninjatoothpaste]

@VTECsqznN2O I have to try and see things from his perspective and although he can talk he rarely does so I have to think of how to explain things in a visual way as much as possible - he's about 4 years old now but behaves more like age 2, he couldn't grasp how to play the bowling Wii Sports for 2 days in a row, he simple made no progress no matter how many times my parents and sister attempted to teach him, but I managed to teach him to play it in 15 minutes.