My Experience with Autism
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Tune in for this unusual presentation on autism by someone with autism. Animal Science professor Temple Grandin, who designs livestock handling facilities, discusses the value of early intervention in autism, and about medications. Other topics include her sensory sensitivities and how she manages them, how she and other autistic people think, and social relationships and careers. Series: "MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [6/2007] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 12868]
Video Rating: 4 / 5
January 28th, 2012 - 23:41
Wow, she doesn’t look like the one in the movie, her behaviour is waaaay normal, haha what a misleading movie.
January 29th, 2012 - 00:29
THUMBS UP OF THE HBO MOVIE SENT YOU HERE
January 29th, 2012 - 00:31
“talents are like fragile flowers” YES. she’s right, don’t punish kids by restricting the expression of their talents. my parents did this and I lost my talents.
January 29th, 2012 - 01:16
jeg er en professor
January 29th, 2012 - 01:54
@CharlestonChew89 The exact reason I looked this up on youtube. I was very curious about a person with autism coming to make a speech near me! Wow.
January 29th, 2012 - 02:14
@BioGirl33 I have autism. You’re an idiot. The mercury salts used in MMR are no more a danger of mercury poisoning than people are danger of getting acid burns whenever they take a pill on account of a formula ending in “HCl”. It’s a good thing that science is based on evidence and independently-verifiable results instead of the fraudulent research of Andy Wakefield. Just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean you can make up whatever fantasy you want to fit the void.
January 29th, 2012 - 02:22
I’ve just watched the movie about her and it was great to find this video… very useful information, thank you very much! “It is just another door…” THIS is self control!… and Temple’s life looks just as a result of her strength and will to give those words such an AMAZING power by REALLY believing in them. … WONDERFUL..!
January 29th, 2012 - 02:33
She is one of the most incredible people alive!!! Her mind is brilliant and Claire Daines did an amazing job playing her! What a brilliant mind she has
January 29th, 2012 - 03:27
@hyperbolaisagraph, I think you’re wrong, vaccination and autism are directly linked because the vaccines contain heavy metal, which stick to the brain, which is the triggering factor of autism for a child who was susceptible to develop this handicap. The 3 Major vaccines are important, however the others are just pieces of shit.
January 29th, 2012 - 04:09
I would love going to the university with temple grandin as the teacher
January 29th, 2012 - 04:35
good video here wow amazing indeed
January 29th, 2012 - 04:35
11 people did tantrums at walmart just for the hell of it
January 29th, 2012 - 04:37
@sarasusans
Eisntein had a bigger this and that in his brain.
January 29th, 2012 - 05:19
@sarasusans
Oh, just like Einstein. I rest my case.
January 29th, 2012 - 05:30
@CheddarBob39 If you look at brain scans, an autistic brain is actually larger than a “normal” brain, especially in the frontal lobe and in the area that controls emotions. (can’t remember what its called at the moment) Also, if you compare at active brain scans of people in emotional situations, there is a massive difference!
January 29th, 2012 - 06:28
@MsUnknown300 we just think differently and hence are misunderstood in our actions which are also different
we’re human, and have every bit every emotion as any other human being.
I know you know that, just sayin it for others.
January 29th, 2012 - 06:41
@N330AA
Is there ever any “concrete” evidence for Autism? Or is Autism just a label(disease we made up,) that we give people who act a certain way. And yes, from reading about Einsteins childhood he did seem to show a lot of characteristics of being what we call autistic. I personally think it is just a chemical imbalance in the brain or nervous system of some sort that causes this behavior that we call “autism.” I guess that goes with a lot of diseases.
January 29th, 2012 - 07:25
@EntropicMisanthropic, your comment is so off base and upsetting. Autistic people do want love and relationships.
January 29th, 2012 - 07:36
@EntropicMisanthropic and my son has Autism and is very loving and emotional. I think it’s a big misconception that people with Autism are incapable of love or uninterested in forming bonds with other people.
January 29th, 2012 - 08:16
@EntropicMisanthropic Actually, she and other autistic people are interested in emotional/social relationships. When she came and spoke to us, she said she enjoys praise from others and she really thrives on it. She may have a harder time interacting with people, but it doesn’t mean she doesn’t want relationship with them or love from them. I know people who aren’t autistic who don’t care to get married. I know people with autism who long for relationships, and some who are married.
January 29th, 2012 - 08:25
@AlternativeBaroque Well said!
January 29th, 2012 - 09:15
11 people did tantrums at walmart just for the hell of it
January 29th, 2012 - 10:04
The thing I find most fascinating about her (and all autistic people) is the inability and inherent disinterest in forming complex emotional/social relationships. The woman is a bona-fide expert and font of information, but she’s simply not capable or interested in bonding with other humans on any level. Temple’s been quoted as saying “the part of other people that has emotional relationships is not part of me.” Never married, honestly doesn’t value or care at all about friendship or love.
January 29th, 2012 - 10:26
I really hate the assumption that Einstein was autistic/aspergers. There’s no concrete evidence for this.
January 29th, 2012 - 11:15
I have aspergers to me it is a case of ying and yang. As a child i was probably like dennis the menace. People are equaly smart, each person just excels and lapses in diferent areas. As i got older i became a social interaction sponge. I love learning how people behave and interact. But for me to be social i have to conciously revise these things. I hate when people don’t like me just because i forget to be social. I am not a bad person just forgetful