Temple Grandin: The Heroic Figure in the Autistic Community

At the age of four her doctor had diagnosed Temple Grandin with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, due to her lack of speech and sensitivity to touch and also with her photographic memory. She was going to go into a mental asylum where many other autistic people had went until her mother Mrs.Grandin said that she would take care of her and try to make her learn like any other kid in the United States. At her aunt's ranch that she had stayed at she developed an interest in cattle. Her mom had to find a place for her because she got kicked out of high school.

They'd call her names, like a retard, tape recorder, a freak, and even a joke. Due to a very great teacher she was able to complete an assignment he gave her. She had to compete an optical illusion which most people cannot do and after a while she was able to complete the optical illusion project thanks to a very little hint by her teacher. She later graduated from highschool and went into a college. She eventually found an interest in animals and pursued an education and career that brought her success. Her communication with others was often blunt, and as a result she sometimes found herself being made fun of by co-workers. With a head-strong attitude like a bull, she took on the challenge of walking through doors like at her graduation, with her journals, and even with her and this lady. By seeking out a solution to continue her work, which was with her squeeze machine, she exemplifies determination and passion. Despite the limits of autism, Grandin proved that nothing could prevent her from getting a strong education and a stable job.

Temple Grandin's ability to strongly connect and very efficiently sympathize with the ones who lack a voice demonstrates her with her compassion. Temple Grandin had once said, “I wish animals could have more than just a low-stress life and a quick, painless death. I wish animals could have a very good life, with something useful and maintaining for us to do. People were animals, too, once, and when we turned into human beings we began to give something up.” By providing a way to give animals a painless and very quick and pleasing death, she demonstrates that she understands animals still have emotions and more importantly, she wants the animals to feel like they too have a purpose in life which is serving us and providing us with their meat, which shows her showing us compassion. As a human being who lived with autism all her life, she feels as if it is her duty to inform others how autistic people function and behave. Through her very uniquely satisfying designed slaughterhouses and for autism, Grandin not only embodies as the kind and caring individual but she is also a very smart and an accessory to us and how we changed the way we viewed our cattle life. Temple is telling us and advising that her lectures are designed to show and provide young children with or without autism who are very important in our near, later future.

She wants kids and children to assimilate her powerful words so they can believe that no matter how different they are they can still reach success and make an impact in the world. Those with autistic features especially someone in need, like Temple Grandin to prove to them that they have a very important purpose in this world. With this evidence it shows that Temple Grandin is much more concerned about how her inventions, about writing, and also about presentations that affect the ones she tries and to help. Her main purpose of doing all of this is to provide and include people who have or know somebody with autism and also to help with the animals. She does not care for the fortune and or a celebrity status. Temple Grandin should be awarded with desire and admiration by people today because she travels throughout the country and gives inspiring presentations, like how she had recently came to Red Bluff Highschool recently for the FFA kids, to motivate a variety of individuals to make a difference in the world. Temple Grandin developed a sassy type of personality that allowed her to never let anything prevent her from following her desire and passion. She thought that the humane and ethical treatment of animals and created brilliant inventions that gave respect for animal life and how they go out of this world.

Throughout Temple Grandin's journey she became a popular member of the autistic community, rising into a voice for the autistic community it showed america that autistic people are also one of us and we should treat them with more respect and authority. Some children in the United States and many other states and countries, may have a mild form of the disorder, yet have difficulties holding down a job in adulthood. Others may never be able to live on their own. She is a perfect type of example of a woman who has not given up to the fact that she couldn't do something when an obstacle was very much in her way and who did not let her diagnosis define her. She showed us all that possessing a mind that worked very differently than others did not make her an alone person in the world or of a lesser value.