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TEMPLE GRANDIN
Born in 1947, Temple Grandin didn’t speak until she was 3½. People assumed she was deaf. Unable to communicate, she would sift sand through her fingers for hours or rock back and forth with a blank expression. There were horrific meltdowns, too, “kicking and screaming like a crazed wildcat,” she later said. Finally, she was diagnosed with autism. Her inability to convey or process communication and her utmost sensitivity to bright, sound and handle, it turned out, are symptoms of the condition.
Back then, autism was misunderstood and secret away. Medical experts believed she was brain damaged and should be place in an institution. Her mother refused, taught her how to behave and read, and sent her to educational facility. Classmates labeled her “weirdo” and bullied her, but teachers and mentors took her under their wing and cultivated her strengths.
When she was 14, she went to a ranch and realized that cattle shrank from human touch and used visual clues and memory t
- Rick Espaillat of Dallas, right, appeared in the Emmy-winning HBO show “Temple Grandin,” in which Claire Danes, center, portrayed autistic animal scientist Temple Grandin, left.
The HBO movie “Temple Grandin” — about theautistic woman noted not just for her advocacy on behalf of those with autism, but also for her work as an animal scientist — knock it big Sunday night at The Emmy Awards, taking dwelling five awards.
Claire Danes won the trophy for “Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie.” The movie won for “Outstanding Made For TV Movie.” Mick Jackson won for “Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special.” Alex Wurman won for “Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or Special: Original Dramatic Score.” And Leo Trombetta won for “Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or Movie.”
But why should we care? I mean, what was so “gay” about “Temple Grandin” that an LGBT newspaper should take notice (aside from the fabulous black-and-red “rancher outfit” that Grandin herself wore to the Emmys)?
The answer is simple: Rick Espaillat.
Espaillat, the media/public relations manager for Caven Enterprises, h
Asexuality on the Autism Spectrum: A Personal Perspective
In 1995, Thinking in Pictures, a bestselling book written by Temple Grandin, one of the world’s first self-advocates with autism, was published. In the chapter “Dating Data,” Grandin wrote about her decision to decide celibacy in adulthood. She cited her social deficits, her struggles in social relationships, her absolute lack of interest and crave to pursue a quixotic relationship. She compared her social struggles to the social mistakes that the character “Data” from Star Trek made in his failed attempts to be romantic. She has continued to write about her decision to remain celibate in many future articles and books.
Grandin has the right to identify herself any way that she chooses, and people contain the responsibility to respect how she identifies herself. However, since Grandin was one of the first openly autistic adults to lecture about autism (today, some consider her to be the most legendary person with autism in the world), the general public had a tendency, when Grandin started writing and lecturing on autism, to assume that whatever Grandin wrote to detail her autism applied, for the most part, to everyo