![]() ![]() "I did a Zoom call with a big bank, and they hired some of the verbal autistics to sell financial products. "The first thing they have to know, and I don't care what kind of corporation it is, is that different kinds of thinking exist," Grandin explained. Grandin feels that it's not enough for employers to know that neurodivergent individuals exist simply-they need to understand that they have different focuses and strengths. With her latest book released in October 2022, Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions, she uses cutting-edge research to take us inside the world of visual thinking to reframe the conversation of neurodiversity and show how different types of thinkers impact our world. I figured out that autistic people's thinking falls into three categories: visual thinker/logic thinker, and musical/mathematical thinker." ![]() And then, after reading some reviews of the book, I started thinking about people I've met. And when I wrote Thinking in Pictures originally, I thought all people with autism thought in pictures. "I assumed everybody thought in pictures. "I didn't know when I was in my 20s that other people thought in words," explained Grandin. As a result, she is the voice of visual thinking in professional and popular circles. Grandin has never stopped following-and driving-the research on what makes minds tick. Whether by transforming how we think about autism or through her work on animal behavior, Temple. ![]()
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