Want more health and neuroscience stories in your inbox? Subscribe to Salon's weekly newsletter The Vulgar Scientist. Grandin has stated that she is grateful to have had supportive teachers and other authority figures throughout her childhood, although she still dealt with bullying and rejection as a teenager. Like me, Grandin's peers mocked her for repetitive speech patterns and being "nerdy." When she displayed autistic traits as a young child, her parents hired a speech therapist and provided mentors throughout her life. We're good at mechanics, art, animals and photography." Grandin's mind conjured up vivid images and was inclined toward mechanical work. As she told me, she is an object visualizer "who thinks in pictures and cannot do algebra. At the same age when I was swimming in a world of facts, Grandin was wielding her burgeoning gifts as an animal scientist and artist to draw and discuss horses whenever she could. Interestingly, while she and I bonded over shared experiences - Grandin had similar issues with social rejection as an autistic person - her autistic mind operates differently. Interview with Temple Grandin: Autism, genetics and the steep price of being intelligent
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