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30 Aug 2010, 2:04 pm

http://awards.tv.yahoo.com/blog/50-who- ... grandin?nc

So...no one knew?


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30 Aug 2010, 2:09 pm

That really surprises you? :wink:


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30 Aug 2010, 2:17 pm

bbc had a documentary 'bout her called 'the woman who thinks like a cow'. i think it explores her way better than the hbo movie.



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30 Aug 2010, 2:18 pm

conundrum wrote:
http://awards.tv.yahoo.com/blog/50-who-is-temple-grandin?nc

So...no one knew?


In the autism community, we all know who she is. Probably 75%. Maybe more, I am not sure.
But when it comes to how many people in the overall population of the world know who she is, it is a very, very small percentage. I do not blame them for not knowing who she is.



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30 Aug 2010, 4:44 pm

At an IEP meeting for my AS son a few years ago, the school principal, teacher, special ed teacher and the school psychologist had never heard of her. I brought her up and got blank looks. Only the speech pathologist knew who I was talking about.



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30 Aug 2010, 4:54 pm

Aimless wrote:
At an IEP meeting for my AS son a few years ago, the school principal, teacher, special ed teacher and the school psychologist had never heard of her. I brought her up and got blank looks. Only the speech pathologist knew who I was talking about.


She isn't as famous as the autism community claims her to be.



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30 Aug 2010, 4:59 pm

jmnixon95 wrote:
Aimless wrote:
At an IEP meeting for my AS son a few years ago, the school principal, teacher, special ed teacher and the school psychologist had never heard of her. I brought her up and got blank looks. Only the speech pathologist knew who I was talking about.


She isn't as famous as the autism community claims her to be.


I was just thinking educators planning an IEP for a child with Asperger's would have been a bit more familiar. I wouldn't have been surprised by the average person on the street.



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30 Aug 2010, 7:06 pm

I honestly dont know anything about Temple Grandin. All I know is she is an autistic lady who designs livestock things.



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30 Aug 2010, 8:17 pm

MrXxx wrote:
That really surprises you? :wink:


It only surprised me that people watching the Emmys might not have made a guess when the cameras were on her during the presentations of the awards for the movie about her...but maybe that was expecting too much. :roll:

Btw, I first read about her in a Psychology textbook about 10 years ago.


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30 Aug 2010, 9:12 pm

Hey thanks for posting that link! :) I cried when I saw it but then again, I'm kinda a sap (even for being on the spectrum), and yeah.

No, I think only people in select fields know of her such as in the autism field (and even then, you get people that know about her & people that don't) and then of course, in the livestock field. Even a lot of people at CSU don't know who she is right off the bat.



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30 Aug 2010, 10:25 pm

The woman who invented a hug machine, for cattle.


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31 Aug 2010, 1:18 am

Something that bugged me related to this.........I got an email today from an animal rights group I'm involved with where they talked about the HBO movie winning some Emmys. But, all they talked about related to the movie was Temple's love for animals, and how she came up with a more humane alternative to animal slaughter. Not once was her autism advocating mentioned in this email. Sure, it was an animal rights group I got the email from but sheesh.