Introduction Even when Temple Grandin was a baby, she seemed different. She was very silent and didn’t respond; in her toddler years she had temper tantrums but never said anything. Then, a few years later she was diagnosed with “infant schizophrenia”, a type of autism. Her father wanted her in a mental institution; her mom wanted her to go to school.
Key Idea 1 What is Autism?: Finding out the news that Temple had autism was a little too much for her dad, Richard, he was disgusted by his oldest child. Temple’s parents fought very often because of her disorder. When she first got tested they weren’t for sure what was wrong with Temple. A neurologist, Bronson Cruthers, tried different tests like gluing wires to Temple’s head to measure the electrical activity in her brain, no damage found; when her ears were tested they found no hearing problem. They finally figured out that she had autism. Autistic children don’t act as normal children would. For example, one child went to a teacher and said another student was “making a strange noise.” The teacher then found out that “noise” was the student crying.
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Cole; so Mrs. Cole went and talked to Temple’s new classmates. Her teacher said to her classmates wasn’t something you can see, like a leg brace, the problem was in her brain. The children said they would be patient with Temple. Eleanor Richardson, Temple Grandin’s best friend, remembers quite a lot about all the things they had to put up with. From when Temple was a child up until her forties, she thought everyone’s mind thought the way hers did, in pictures, she had no idea her mind worked
Key Idea 1 What is Autism?: Finding out the news that Temple had autism was a little too much for her dad, Richard, he was disgusted by his oldest child. Temple’s parents fought very often because of her disorder. When she first got tested they weren’t for sure what was wrong with Temple. A neurologist, Bronson Cruthers, tried different tests like gluing wires to Temple’s head to measure the electrical activity in her brain, no damage found; when her ears were tested they found no hearing problem. They finally figured out that she had autism. Autistic children don’t act as normal children would. For example, one child went to a teacher and said another student was “making a strange noise.” The teacher then found out that “noise” was the student crying.
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Cole; so Mrs. Cole went and talked to Temple’s new classmates. Her teacher said to her classmates wasn’t something you can see, like a leg brace, the problem was in her brain. The children said they would be patient with Temple. Eleanor Richardson, Temple Grandin’s best friend, remembers quite a lot about all the things they had to put up with. From when Temple was a child up until her forties, she thought everyone’s mind thought the way hers did, in pictures, she had no idea her mind worked