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Kim Mance is a journalist, writer and blogger for publications like Condé Nast Traveler, and Marie Claire. She co-hosted Travel Channel’s Destination Showdown, and hosts Dream it. Book it. Do it! for Comcast on-demand.

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I'm editor-in-chief of Galavanting, an online women's travel magazine. I'm also a freelance writer on topics from politics, to parenting, to freethought. 

Oh, and I've got five great kids; three of my own, and two who came with the love of my life.

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Wednesday
Feb242010

We Need All Kinds of Minds

Reading one of Temple Grandin's books, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism, when my son PJ was first diagnosed with autism changed my life. She wrote it as an adult, and gave detailed descriptions of her childhood as an autistic person -- what worked and what didn't.

I also found out from watching her talk at TED while at the airport, that there's a brand new movie of Temple Grandin's life coming out on HBO (starring Claire Danes), and I really can't wait to see it!


Here's her talk this year at the TED conference. She speaks truth about how we need all kinds of minds for the world to work properly. I couldn't agree more. This is amazing:

 

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