All Kinds of Minds, Executive Functioning & Criminal Justice

 Temple Grandin is talking about:

• All Kinds of Minds, and 
• Spectrums

I used to think and I think a lot of people still do think that people in the Criminal Justice System have Lower Intelligence --- in some kind of ABSOLUTE SENSE.

A big part of our Criminal Justice Problem is that ASSUMPTION is not true.

BUT it is true that people have EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING DIFFERENCES that are making it difficult for the person to survive in society.

Further, as more and more of our arbitrary and racist, sexist, politically incorrect filters are having to be discarded --- Traditional Executive Functioning and "Emotional Intelligence" SEEM LIKE OBJECTIVE MEASURES --- but they are not.

The "ASYNCHRONOUS" Packages people are coming in are not only making it hard to ECONOMICALLY SURVIVE --- it is making it hard to EMOTIONALLY SURVIVE.

I would submit that Temple Grandin is much more "EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT" than much of what I have seen on "Emotionally Intelligent People" and the "Toxic People."

​For some Neuro-Diverse People with Executive Functioning Differences, the HIGH SKILLS in some areas are never getting sufficiently challenged ----
that is leading to mental health problems.

On the other hand, the SOCIETY for all intents and purposes is NOT PREPARED to accept that intelligent  people could have EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING DIFFERENCES. ​

Ted-Ed -- Temple Grandin
The World Needs All Kinds of Minds

A lot of people in Criminal Justice fall into a broad category of ADHD that is in fact quite BLURRED with Autism.

Further, these DSM boxes are having more and more difficulty corresponding to empirical research.

Lex Morningstar @ 6:50:  "People with ADHD receive 20,000 more criticisms by the time they reach the age 12  than Neurotypicals.    That's a lot."
A lot of times you do have highly intelligent people, who are highly sensitive, and have executive functioning differences and a SOCIETY that is ABUSING them.

The RESULTS are not pretty.