kraftiekortie wrote:
^^ This is the sort of thing which enabled Temple Grandin to invent all the things she's invented.
An ability to see things that many people can't see. To visualize it. To dream about it. To see the minute details which can make the difference between greatness and catastrophe. One degree of angle either way.
I don't believe autistic people are "superior," over all. To believe that would be absurd.
However, there are some things which some autistic people can do, which many neurotypical people cannot.
Fortunately, people who were in farming, and the architecture of farms, could see Temple Grandin's genius, and were able to "get around" her "eccentric" ways. Adjust to them.
I feel it would be of benefit (to all of us) if other people could "adjust" to us autistics like those farming people adjusted to Temple Grandin.
The organic farming/homesteading community is very welcoming and open to all people from across all spectrums of society. Temple Grandin is one of our most famous autistics, but she is certainly not alone. I went to a Mother Earth News Fair (aka CompostCon) a few years ago, and it was the first time I ever felt comfortably at home in the midst of thousands of people.
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