Who would you like to sit at a table with apart from close friends?

Two come to my mind.
Temple Grandin and Barbara Arrowsmith-Young.

Many years ago I saw the movie about Temple Grandin.
This movie had an effect on me to search more about about her.
While I wouldn't be-able to sit at the same table and talk to her fearing I would look a fool, but I would be more than happy to sit and listen to her.
Just her ability to remember in images is extraordinary.


Barbara Arrrowsmith-Young came to Australia and to my town a few years ago.
I had never heard of her until she was being interviewed on a talk back radio station.
Not only has this woman changed the lives of those who have learning difficulties but importantly she changed hers.... and while i haven't enrolled in one of her classes, but just listening to her on the radio gave me a glimmer of hope.... however I cant enroll firstly because her Australian schhol is on the other side of the country plus more worrying to me is if I'm an exception to the rule and cant learn and letting her down.

This is from the back of her book.
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn - or worse.
As a child, she read and wrote everything backwards, struggled to process concepts in language, and was physically uncoordinated. But by relying on her formidable memory and iron will, she made her way to graduate school, where she chances upon research that inspired her to invent cognitive exercises to "fix"her own brain.
Truly remarkable to think she couldn't understand how to tell the time at the age of 23? (there abouts) and now changes the lives of children and adults with learning difficulities.