Emma Burbidge
Oct 151 min read
Alan Turing Was a Real-Life Matilda
On genius, difference, and the systems that silence brilliance. 𝑮𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒅. 𝑺𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆. 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅. 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒕. Punished by a system built to silence minds like his. Before he cracked the Enigma code. Before he imagined machines that could think: Alan Turing was a boy who, like Matilda, saw the world differently. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒕. He wasn’t throwing chalk with his mind. He was dreaming of numbers that could think. Of

