professor Temple Grandin,

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Tune in for this unusual presentation on autism by someone with autism. Animal Science professor Temple Grandin, who designs livestock handling facilities, discusses the value of early intervention in autism, and about medications. Other topics include her sensory sensitivities and how she manages them, how she and other autistic people think, and social relationships and careers. Series: "M.I.N.D. Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [6/2007] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 12868] I MEAN HER VIEW ON AUTISM NOT WHAT SHE EATS. do you agree on the information she is giving.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wt1IY3ffoU[/youtube]

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another person with autism doing great things

I mentioned Temple Grandin in a presentation of my own I did for my school.

what i don't understand she think in picture but i don't think in words. i always have problem with understanding this.

I've read all of her books, and the one that she co-wrote with some guy who's name I've forgotten. Sean something? I think she's great. I didn't watch the video because I didn't feel like it. I've seen an interview with her though. I can't really relate to the way she thinks in that she is the visual type of thinker and I am very strong in verbal logic. She thinks in pictures and colors, and I am very concretely dependent on lists and words and reading.
I noticed that a lot of the things she writes about from her childhood she thinks of as purely autistic events. I hate to contradict an expert, but it just seems like many of her experiences are a commonality among the youth of her era. She played pranks and made friends and developed a fascination of a little plastic donkey that pooped M 'n' M's or cigarettes or something. Granted, the sensory differences, which are a primary focus of many of her books, make her experiences unique.
Whatever. It was just a thought.
She can draw diagrams and visualize technology as computer aided design software represents it.
The very visual metaphors she used were confusing to me. She described her struggles with autism and "breaking out of her shell" of anxiety, designer's block, withdrawal from peers, etc. as a sliding glass door and then literally became afraid of glass doors, and pictured her success as a bell tower with a door atop a building that she liked to sit in.
I'm done rambling. I'm not sure if this even matters.

Hypocryte and I don't agree with some of her veiws

May i ask why do you believe she is a hypocrte ?

What don't you understand? It's a little unclear.

i mean when i think i see images even when i think of words they be colorful not black and white. when i think of people they are in color. i thought everyone thought like this.

She claims to love cattle but dosen't do anything to help end the slaugher of them. You think she would be advotating vegetarianism in addition to designing humane slaugher houses. Perhaps she just loves cattle on a plate.

lol

She tried vegetarianism. It got her sick. (Same here, actually, despite using all the right supplements. And especially now that I have a muscle condition that makes me need either meat or meat-derived supplements in order to not go completely floppy really easily. I hate most meat but I need it.) Lots of humans are omnivores, some of us obligate omnivores. Deal with it.

I don't like her views on those she views as "low functioning", "ret*d", or Williams syndrome. I like some of her other stuff. I can identify with some of her experiences but not others, and of all the autistic people writing about their experiences she is relatively far from people I identify with. (Not that that affects how I feel about her, it's fine for people to be very different from me, it doesn't mean they're "misrepresenting autism" any more than I misrepresent autism by discussing my own experiences which are fairly out of the ordinary.)

She's also a human being. If being on television and other media taught me one thing, it's that when people think of you as 'famous' (even the '15 minutes' variety I had), they believe they know you better than they do, when they barely know you at all, and they think they can have an 'opinion on you', discuss you at length with other people who think they know all about you but don't, pronounce a judgment on you-as-a-whole, and that this doesn't affect you in any way. She is several orders of magnitude more famous than I'll ever be, and the fact is that despite reading all her books, I don't know her much at all. I've never met her. Most of who she is, I will never know. That's important to keep in mind when evaluating people from a distance.

A lot of it is the regional culture that she grew up in..plus I guess the "sick from vegetarianism" thing.
I think she made more of a difference with her work than one vegetarian might make anyway.

I've tried to change my mind about her and to understand why she's so 'popular' and looked up to. She's obviously held in high regard on this forum, and surely is doing a great job - both as a spoke person and a researcher but as far as I'm concerned she doesen't represent me and my values or reflect who I am. Allthough she's accomplished alot witing her area of expertise, I somehow end up wanting to smash my head in the wall for being on the same spectrum as her. Maybe this has to do with me being a 'closet-aspie' who dosen't 'want' to identify with other aspies, her someowhat awkward posture (which makes me self conscious) or the fact that she's achieved success in a field which I have no interest in.

I don't agree with everything she believes in or says or does, but I do think I can learn things about how to overcome my challenges from her, because she has overcome many of the same things. I just ordered her book called "The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships," and I hope that it will help me to get along better with people at work.

There are supliments out there for people like that or perhaps she did not give it enough time. Veganism and vegetariasim are proven to be healthier than a carnivarous diet. My nepphew has CF and needs a high calorie diet and supposedly could never tolerate a vegan diet; if he were my child I would give him up for adoption. But then I'm not known for my love of children. If I suddenly developed a condition that did not agree with my vegan lifestyle and couldn't find supliments I would just die. Temple Grandin either needs to become a vegetarism and promote it or stop claming she loves cattle so much.