Temple Grandin movie on HBO

August 18, 2010

As we know the diagnosis autism has morphed much over the years- Dr. Temple

Grandin who was born in 1947 brings to light what it's like to live with autism.

The movie Temple Grandin was just released August 17 on DVD and has been

nominated for 15 Emmy awards. It will be on NBC August 29

And here is a BBC documentary on Grandin that is very well done that features

the real life Temple.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

I wonder if she was a late talker because she couldn't talk or didn't want to

-she does not appear to have any speech impairment today and as we know speech

impairments are overcome but don't just go away.

I also find it interesting that her favorite animal in the world, the one she

relates to and understands, cattle, an animal that she finds so peaceful, how

she is intimately involved in watching them slaughtered one after another on a

cattle slaughter assembly line on what would seem to be an ongoing pretty much

daily basis. I mean I know she's helped develop what some believe to be more

humane ways of slaughtering cattle, or at least as they don't get into how they

actually kill them in the above documentary but what is believed to be a more

humane path to them being slaughtered (because they don't moo I think was the

way they can tell?), but in the documentary I find it odd that from what I see

nobody asks her what her feelings are about watching the cattle be led to their

death through the more humane path she created for them. I wonder why nobody

asks her if she ever gets or even once got attached to any of the cattle

previous to them being slaughtered. Does she ever cry or is it all in a day's

work to her? Or since she calls the path the cattle walk to where they are

slaughtered Stairway to Heaven does she believe they are going to a better

place?

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