Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin was born August 29 1947, in Boston, Massachusetts.  Her parents are Richard Grandin and Eustacia Cutler. She was diagnosed with autism when she was young. At that time autisme was considered brain damage. After years of research Dr. Samuel Wang argues that damage to cerebellum while the child is in the womb can take part in the development of autism. " For a child known to have cerebellar injury at birth, the paper reports increased a relative risk for an ASD as equivalent to that  of a smoker developing lung cancer." Chris Spargo for Mail Online. .Her sense such as hearing and touch were oversensitive and she has a hard time to get her words out. When she was younger she created a squeezing machine that helped her to tolerate touch and calm her nerves. At the age of 21 and a 1/2 she attended a intervention that helped her overcome her handicap.

Temple pursued an education in animal science and psychology. She got a  B.A. in psychology, at Franklin Pierce College, 1970. She went to alcohol at Arizona State University and got a M.S. for animal science in  1975. In 1989 she got a Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois. She's a successful autistic women that designs livestock equipment. You will see this in detail in the movie.  I think this film does a great job of displaying how you can get anything accomplished if you put your mind to it. Nobody believed Temple was capable of doing it but she proved them wrong after. She is very passionate  about perfecting ranch cattle handling and coral system.
Back then people believed that children with autism couldn't go to school to get an education but her mother strongly believed that she should have an education so she worked with her daughter to the point where she could do to college. When she put her mind to something she went through with it. she wanted to work with animals so she had the chance to work with cows, and she noticed things other people did not. When the cows were being sent to the slaughter house they would get anxious and they would trample each other and hurt themselves so she made it her mission to fix it. I think it's very important to set goals for yourself, because it gives you something to work towards and once your done something to be proud of.   Temple thought outside the box and didn't follow the rules, she was her own person and did what she thought was right even when other's didn't agree with her.

Links
http://www.biography.com/people/temple-grandin-38062#synopsis
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2747240/Has-cause-autism-finally-uncovered-Brain-injury-womb-early-child-s-growth-root-disorder.html
http://www.autism.com/advocacy_grandin