Temple Grandin:

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.

I have tickets to attend an evening with Dr Temple Grandin and AEIOU Foundation at the University of Southern Queensland on 24 October, 2013.