Luckily for me, the Packers' fortunes changed for the rest of the '90s, and I still vividly remember watching them cap off the 1996 season with a victory at Super Bowl XXXI. I spent the night regaling my parents' friends with tales from various seasons in the nearly-30 year championship drought I hoped was about to end.īy the late '90s, I had moved on to the entertainment industry.
Green is my favorite color, which gave these mathematical factoids profound significance to me. When they asked why I'd support a team from a distant state coming off a 4-12 season, I explained that they had won the first two Super Bowls and were the only team with green in both their uniform and name. Shortly before the 1992 NFL season, I announced to my parents that I was going to be a Green Bay Packers fan. Thumbing through massive books brimming with historical data broken down by team and player, as a little child in the early '90s I would impress my parents' friends with memorized facts and figures about football lore. From the moment I first read her theory, I knew that I was a word thinker. How could I not, when this is the way she would later describe them? "The word thinker may be poor at drawing but have a huge memory for facts such as sports statistics or film stars." Worlds have changed because certain interests have caught fire within specific autistic minds.Īccording to author and autism advocate Temple Grandin, there are three ways that autistic people can think: They can be visual thinkers, musical/mathematical thinkers or verbal/logic thinkers. Like a lot of others with autism, I tend to develop obsessive interests about which I insatiably acquire extensive, detailed knowledge.
My favorite thing about that word, though, is how it implies that there are a great many ways life shapes each distinct neurological type. "Neurodiversity" - which refers to the idea that some conditions viewed as developmental disorders are actually normal variations in the brain - exists to de-stigmatize autism and spread awareness that some neurological differences can be normal and healthy.
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