Movie Temple Grandon

1) What do you think would have happened to temple if she had been institutionalized as her father wanted?

2) Why was Temple elementary school a good environment for someone with her disorder?

3) How did temple's experience in elementary school compare to her experience in junior high?

4) What were some things about Temple's personality that made her difficult for her classmates to understand?

5) Why did Temple play pranks on her classmates in junior high and how did playing the pranks make her feel?

6) How have ideas about what constitutes mental illness changed over the years? What is "neurodiversity"?

7) Temple says, "Animals saved me." In what ways did animals save her?

As an autism patient, institutionalizing Temple would have disabled her and stopped her from achieving ground-breaking performance in animal science.

However, as Temple's mother prevailed, Temple needed an environment that would accept her autism and challenge her to develop her special abilities (including visual thinking, high sensitivity to details, and spatial memory).

2. Temple's elementary school became a good environment for someone with her disorder because it enabled Temple to recognize her limitations and discover her full potential.

3. Temple's experience in elementary school enabled her to build the right foundation for junior high by giving her self-acceptance to reject stigmatization.

4. The things about Temple's personality that made her difficult for her classmates to understand include:

Being a visual thinker (instead of a verbal communicator like her classmates).
Extreme sensitivity to detail and environmental changes.
High spatial memory.

5. Playing pranks on her classmates enabled Temple to show that she was different, gifted, and unlimited by environmental controls, unlike her classmates.

6. The ideas about mental illness have changed over the years with people understanding that people who think differently from the "normal others" are not suffering from mental illnesses.

Neurodiversity is the concept that our brains function differently, including individual behavioral traits.

7. Temple's claim that "Animals saved me" refers to the fact that her deep understanding of animals enabled her to become a recognized scientist, author, and groundbreaking animal advocate instead of the stigmatized, rejected, and misunderstood Temple.

Thus, Temple Grandin teaches us to appreciate neurodiversity.

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