TEMPLE GRANDIN
Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science, and a person with autism. She also invented a "hugging” machine, which helps to calm those who have autism ‘freak outs’. Temple Grandin was born on August 29, 1947 in Boston, and she was diagnosed with autism when she was two. She apparently had brain damage and was put in a nursery school. Temple’s mother hired a nanny to help Temple’s speech problems, probably leading to Temple’s disband from her mother. Temple Grandin had a hard upbringing, because of her condition. During her teenage years, she was very distant from everybody else. Every one would call her mean things and bully her. Doors symbolize to her a “passage”, usually to a better place when she felt trapped. Walking through doors took her to life's work because people believed in her idea to improve the design of cattle chutes to alter their behavior, and invent a more human and ethical means of handling animals. She has invented many things such as animal handling inventions. Like how she designed cattle chutes to help cattle release some sort of stress.
Temple became known after appearing in Oliver Sacks's book, An Anthropologist on Mars, the title of which is came from Temple's description of how she feels in social situations. By that time, she had already made a name for herself in autism groups. Temple first spoke publicly about autism in the 1980s, at the Autism Society of America. As a autistic person, she has hypersensitivity to noise and other sensory details, which can make socializing painful or boring. She is a very visual thinker who's imagination runs wild. Temple also has an extreme sensitivity to details and environmental change, which she uses for her helpful imagination into the minds of cattle and other farm animals. Temple has never been married nor has she had any children. She doesn't share the same interest of relationships with other people. she is mostly involved in her work. Perhaps she could be asexual or simply has no interest in a relationship. Temple has three degrees which are a B.A. in Psychology, M.S. in Animal Science, and a Ph.D in Animal Science. She has written many books which tell about helpful animal skills, and consults autism rights or problems. Temple now works in Colorado State University as a professor.
What can happen when you see obstacles as opportunities and allow yourself to learn from those experiences? If one day I saw everything as an obstacle I would have to eventually overcome my fear of it. An obstacle could help you learn something about yourself, and you learn a new lesson in life depending on that obstacle. You should be able to be open minded to new things, and trying them. Getting through these new experiences is a part of life, because you never know the outcome if you don't really try, right? People have obstacles to jump over because they need to get to the other side of the obstacle to do new things. This may seem basic but many people never commit to their dream. They think about it. Or, when the first obstacle appears and they give up. But if I had autism, the best thing to do is, at least try to overcome my irrational fears. Or maybe get help, or give help.