This episode of pplpod profiles Dr. Temple Grandin, the autistic scientist, inventor, and animal behaviorist who reshaped both the global livestock industry and society's understanding of neurodiversity. The hosts trace her story from a Boston childhood in 1947, when she was nonverbal at age two and given the now-archaic "brain damage" label that doctors urged her wealthy family to address through institutionalization. Her mother refused, hired a speech therapist, and put her on a path that ran through bullying, expulsion at 14, and a transformative summer on her aunt's Arizona ranch, where Grandin observed a cattle squeeze chute and realized that deep, predictable pressure could calm her own sensory overload. With encouragement from her science teacher and former NASA researcher William Carlock, she built her famous hug box, then earned degrees  ...