Thank you for posting, as a mom of a child with Aspergers syndrome, and also working in the animal field, I love Temple, shes amazing, her books are amazing as well. Great post!!!

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I've seen the Temple Grandin movie like 3 times already. It's awesome. The fact that it is a true story makes it that much better.

Yeah I caught the HBO movie and it was FANTASTIC. Claire Danes is HIGHLY underrated. I feel like she's ten times the actress that Natalie Portman is and yet doesn't get hardly any attention compared to that pretty-but-talentless meh.

i work with autistic adults and my moms been trying to tell me about this lady for weeks, i think, but she couldn't remember names or details.
awesome.

i work in high tech with many folks that she describes and i am likely on the spectrum myself. I think she is the Rosetta stone of the two worlds and is absolutely genius.

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Patterns. I'm hooked on patterns. It was interesting while she was saying that she could see the pictures in her head. I can very clearly remember spacial objects, but it is always in relationship with the other objects.

I watched this talk a couple of days ago. It didn't really click until I was watching a show on Hulu while waiting for something. One of the children ends up having aspergers. His dad was talking with him and another boy came by and said hello. The boy with aspergers said nothing in response. His dad scolded him about not saying hi back because the other kid will think that he doesn't care and the aspergers kid just shrugged. It was a flashback to my childhood and how my dad would tell me things on how to fit in with the kids at school. Luckily, I played and was good at sports so I was automatically was part of an"in" group. But it was my dad's constant, yet not pressured, advice that really helped me out. That's when I started learning the patterns of social interaction in order to fit in better so I would be left alone. An uncanny recognition, but easily shrugged off. Later it showed the kid constantly jumping in a puddle. Again and again. When I was 3, I spent about 4 hours hitting a puddle with a stick. I remember it to this day. It was so utter fascinating watching the cause and affect while trying to figure out exactly what was happening. (On a somewhat related note: I think that is why I find Richard Feynman sift so damn interesting. I love seeing the passion and curiosity that existed in him. And also listening to the explanations. Simply wonderful.)

So I don't know if I'm acting like a hypochondriac or if this is real - I'm too close to have real perspective, but I think that warrants further investigation.

Wonderful sift, btw.

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