Fortress and Frontier: Robert Graboyes talks to Temple Grandin About Being Different, but Not Less

Discourse Magazine Podcast

On today’s episode, Dr. Robert Graboyes, Senior Research Fellow and healthcare scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. They discuss the logistics of livestock handling facilities, Temple’s life growing up and living with autism, the US educational system and its shortcomings, and much more.

The audio as well as the transcript of this conversation has been slightly edited for clarity.

Resources mentioned:

Temple's TED talk The World Needs All Kinds of Minds: https://www.ted.com/talks/temple_grandin_the_world_needs_all_kinds_of_minds?language=en

The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care by Clayton M. M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, and Jason Hwang M.D.: https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Prescription-Disruptive-Solution-Health/dp/1259860868

Temple Grandin (HBO Movie): https://www.hbomax.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GVU4KuQQ3K4NJjhsJAbXd/?utm_id=sa%7c71700000067760082%7c58700005914635609%7cp54043592318&gclid=Cj0KCQiAhP2BBhDdARIsAJEzXlHNhLDkt5rJHQ4_rV6grIPnEvIkZ3zA31onBDQ1acAFYEy0DY0luQgaAg7pEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Pictures-Expanded-Life-Autism/dp/0307275655

The Autistic Brain by Temple Grandin: https://www.amazon.com/Autistic-Brain-Thinking-Across-Spectrum-ebook/dp/B009JWCR56

Oliver Sacks' essay on Temple Grandin: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/12/27/anthropologist-mars