Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin was born in Boston in 1947. Temple's mother devoted her life to taking care of Temple because she was born with autism. Her family was able to afford a playmate to stop her from going into a corner. Her mother tried to find schools that would support Temple's needs. Grandin's grandmother recommended a speech therapy. Temple had to read to her mother. This helped Temple be more social.   

As she got older, she became stressed with anything that spins or makes any noise. In her teens, she fled to her uncle's farm. She discovered a squeeze chute. It calms cows so they could be branded. She got in the chute and it was closed. Temple felt calm when inside it. She went to Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire. She took her homemade squeeze chute to college. She graduated with honors in 1970.

Temple entered a graduate school for animal science. She became an editor for Arizona Farmer Ranchman. She wrote about slaughter cattle at meat-processing plants. She noticed that cows and autistic people have some things in common. Corral Industries hired her to design equipment for their plants.

In 2005, Temple wrote a book called Animals in Translation: Using Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior. Today Temple Grandin speaks about autism.

Genesis 1:25

God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.