I am reviewing my Kindle books. I have bought enough of them that I need to stop buying and/or re-read. Looking over the titles, I selected 11 to check out. One of the first is John Ratey's " A User's Guide to the Brain". He first discusses factors that impair good brain development and that brings to his mind the subject of the woman Temple Grandin. Her condition is often described as "autistic" but a single word is not enough to cover her unusual history, condition and abilities.
Temple wanted to be better at getting along with others. She is an "autistic savant", a person with strong disabilities but also high intelligence and a photographic memory. She wanted to learn to get along with people better but even approaching a person was very frightening. She tensed and failed to practice usual restraint, getting too close. She decided her conditions when approaching a person felt similar to what she felt trying to pass through a revolving door, a complex action that caused her tension. Reading the words "revolving door" immediately brought to mind "Extraordinary Attorney Wu". That was a tv show produced in South Korea that we watched on Netflix. Wu is portrayed by a pretty actress who is not hampered but does a fine job emanating an atmosphere of fully unusual behavior in the show. Like Temple Grandin, she has a very difficult time passing through a revolving door. Its appearance and motion confuses them very much. Add the demonstration of difficulty when others pass through easily and there is a problem. I guess Grandin practiced enough and benefited from her practice more than Attorney Wu.
