Last Friday night I was able, privileged to meet Temple Grandin (first, well-known autistic, prolific writer, speaker/teacher) at a Meet and Greet and talk event. She is touring the states.
Grandin loudly stated to a sold-out audience that not all learners need to be "verbal learning (linear)" proficient, for they are not geared to be so. Algebra is not their arena of intelligence. They, instead of linear, think in pictures, patterns, and ratios. Creators of new devices or whatever are good verbal thinkers, often, but come break-downs of those creations, which is inevitable, they cannot do it. Repair requires a hands-on, perceptive-of-trouble ability, which many different learners: ADD, ADHD, etc. have as their intelligences."
She attributes the Western world's, particularly, America's troubles to our over-focus on linear learning. "Bring back the trade classes in schools!" she repeats, over and over. These individuals thrive there, knowing naturally how to work with materials, and created objects: cars, bridges, airplanes, (me) even partially farms, for they now no longer using intuitive sensing of weather, soil conditions, etc, farming now tech-governed.
Grandin: "Get those unable to deal with this world, secluded in their bedrooms on computers, out into the world of hands-on and problem solving, like designing elevators with two opposite doors, so when a wheelchair is rolled in, it can go forward out the other door. These individuals will thrive doing these activities, happy, making good money, and helping to re-energize the infrastructure of the country."
Continuing: "And watch out for AI, for it will take away all those jobs, robbing most, actually all, of our creative, linear and non-linear abilities, these our gifts, giving us a sense of
fulfillment." Her book: "Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think In Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions." (2022)
Last Friday night I was able, privileged to meet Temple Grandin (first, well-known autistic, prolific writer, speaker/teacher) at a Meet and Greet and talk event. She is touring the states.
Grandin loudly stated to a sold-out audience that not all learners need to be "verbal learning (linear)" proficient, for they are not geared to be so. Algebra is not their arena of intelligence. They, instead of linear, think in pictures, patterns, and ratios. Creators of new devices or whatever are good verbal thinkers, often, but come break-downs of those creations, which is inevitable, they cannot do it. Repair requires a hands-on, perceptive-of-trouble ability, which many different learners: ADD, ADHD, etc. have as their intelligences."
She attributes the Western world's, particularly, America's troubles to our over-focus on linear learning. "Bring back the trade classes in schools!" she repeats, over and over. These individuals thrive there, knowing naturally how to work with materials, and created objects: cars, bridges, airplanes, (me) even partially farms, for they now no longer using intuitive sensing of weather, soil conditions, etc, farming now tech-governed.
Grandin: "Get those unable to deal with this world, secluded in their bedrooms on computers, out into the world of hands-on and problem solving, like designing elevators with two opposite doors, so when a wheelchair is rolled in, it can go forward out the other door. These individuals will thrive doing these activities, happy, making good money, and helping to re-energize the infrastructure of the country."
Continuing: "And watch out for AI, for it will take away all those jobs, robbing most, actually all, of our creative, linear and non-linear abilities, these our gifts, giving us a sense of
fulfillment." Her book: "Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think In Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions." (2022)
My work speaking of this, also: www. HeartCenteredMinds.com
"Not how many people have this, but why, after everything, do we still treat it as a disorder and only offer simplistic solutions?"
Yes, thank you, sir! There is nothing wrong with those of us with ADHD, we just have different strengths and we hate boring, nitpicky tasks.