Happy Sunday meatie peeps ...
... i watched a film made for HBO titled Temple Grandin ... it's based on the life of Temple Grandin ... a high functioning autistic who got herself through to getting a master's degree ... she works in the field of animal behavior ... particularly cattle ... i heard her interviewed Friday on NPR... i find her speech pattern and thoughts annoying ... but was curious to know more about her ... the film left me in tears... of joy for her ... a curious thing in the film ... Grandin was diagnosed with autism at the age of four... in 1951 ... i was surprised to find it was that early ... as my brother wasn't diagnosed until he was in his early 30s in the early 1980s ... he's deaf as well and was said to be unable to be educated due to his attention span ... but then i suppose that's a catch 22 of the autism... perhaps if he had been diagnosed earlier things would be different for him ... he's pretty much genius in my eyes... he did learn to write the letters of the alphabet ... taught himself the cursive version... and went on to write words ... street lights always facinated him and he would draw pictures of them... and make models of them out of clay ... and then get small lights and hook them to a battery to light them ... this all with no education ... if only ...
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