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Temple Grandin, 1947-
Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin is probably the best-known individual with autism in the United States today, and perhaps in the whole world.
She came to popular attention after neurologist and author Oliver Sacks profiled her in a 1993 New Yorker article, “An Anthropologist on Mars.” Grandin used that catchy term to describe how bewildering she found the rules governing normal social interaction.
She had to study other human beings as anthropologists do, as participants in a different culture, in order to learn those rules.
At the time, few if any individuals with autism had described their lives in their own words.
Temple grandin mini biography of edgar
Grandin’s story was utterly astonishing. She revealed how impossible it could be for her to understand other human minds and, at the same time, how capable she was of using her exceptional intelligence to do exactly that. Grandin helped lay the groundwork for concepts like neurodiversity.
Since the 1980s, Grandin’s story has made her a role mo