| Dr. Temple Grandin thinks like a cow. An amazing | | | | perhaps to their detriment, but one feature that's |
| individual, she is not only Doctor of Animal Science at | | | | incredibly endearing is their unbending passion, and this |
| Colorado State University, best-selling author and | | | | is something that Dr. Grandin has used throughout her |
| animal advocate and activist, she's intrinsically autistic.[1] | | | | career. |
| In that, she's typically bored in relationships and | | | | Perhaps one of the positive aspects of an autistic |
| interactions, but not with animals, which primarily think, | | | | personality (if it can be harnessed and developed) is |
| like her, in pictures. | | | | the capacity to achieve or perform at a zenith of |
| This type of thinking is deeply rooted in the "now." It's | | | | human ability in one, or perhaps only a few, very |
| deeply corporeal-relying on the very real and seen | | | | focused pastimes. |
| external stimuli. Dogs and cats, cows and pigs and | | | | We can imagine being so focused on a task, to the |
| other animals don't think in affective ways like we do. | | | | exclusion of distracting stimuli, that we give it such |
| This is a replicator for the extreme end of | | | | attention that the result created is basically perfect. Of |
| Myers-Briggs 'sensing' personality preference-to the | | | | course, it works best with mechanised tasks not |
| utter rejection of the 'intuitive' mind, or the ability to intuit | | | | requiring a high degree of relational perception or |
| the deeper tones of relational rapport i.e. affinity with | | | | control. |
| others. | | | | There are times-many times, in fact-when the heat is |
| And there's something quite inherently admirable about | | | | on us to produce or deliver upon agreed objectives. |
| such focus in one human mind to leave out 'the | | | | Learning to think in pictures to the exclusion of our |
| possible' in seeking the absolute seen reality. | | | | feelings is an incredible situational lever to pull upon |
| Autistics are notoriously staid in their thinking, able not | | | | occasionally in the management of our lives. |
| only to focus incredibly deeply, they're actually not able | | | | [1] Dr. Grandin has high-functioning autistim. |
| not to. Change-resistance is part of their world, | | | | |