Temple Grandin

Jon and I watched the Temple Grandin movie last night.

I liked it and I thought that it was really well done. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend it to you as something that could help you see another side of autism. I’ve read lots about Temple Grandin including several of her own autobiographical books. This movie seemed to hit all the right notes. If I didn’t have an autistic son and eat and breathe autism all day long I probably would be distanced enough to like it even more.

Actually, there was this one point in the movie last night when Temple and her mother were at an autism conference in 1980, I think. Anyway, they join a lecture sort of after it had begun and Temple’s mom said, sort of under her breath, “I don’t know if I can take another talk”. That made me laugh. Been there, done that.

The more I know about autism, the more I wonder if we are doing what we should to help our children. It seems that we try to take it apart and try to have victories in different areas…I don’t know.

I think that is another blog post for another day.