Temple Grandin on autism, language, and sensory empathy (NPR interview)

Temple Grandin talks about how non-autistic people often lack sensory empathy in an interview on NPR:

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don’t have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can’t stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there’s too much stimulation. I’m frustrated with the inability of normal people to have sensory empathy. They can’t seem to acknowledge these different realities because they’re so far away from their own experiences.

Read the rest of the interview—which focuses on autism and language, a topic I am always interested in (Charlie would probably be non-verbal had he lived twenty years ago and not had the education he has had)—here.