Temple Grandin

Have you ever watched Temple Grandin?

Let me tell the story, how I know about this film. When I'm met the head of special needs school, we talked much about the behavior of children. Every children have their own uniqueness, there are children who like to screaming, knock their head, or get anxiety every time hear loud voices. Those children is children with special needs, they maybe have autism, asperger, cerebral palsy, or other psychological disorder. Then the head of school recommend some movie for me to watch before start the internship in that school. For several years, I have passion with kids and education especially they are with special needs.

Temple Grandin ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/)

Temple Grandin born with autistic disorder in 1950, that not yet familiar by society in that era. In early year of life she had difficulty to communicate, her frustration instead by screaming or humming. Temple life with her mother, in this film there's no story about her full family (or maybe I just didn't realize). The story begin when Temple had summer holiday in her aunt house, she look "normal" (like people said) but it's turn different when other people start talk with her. In aunt’s house she interest about animal behavior and how cowboy life. Then, the most important scene when she found that signboard which written her name was missing. She was afraid to open the door, in second her brain become overload with all the imagination and sensitivity from her sensory. She run and run until get into the cattle machine. That machine, help the cow to relax with the feeling of hug. Temple finally found the way to make her relax, she created her own squeeze machine, give her love incapable of receiving from human contact.

Temple Grandin film basically is biography film, give viewer understanding about the hard life of people life with autistic. The family condition and how they survived to grow their kids and become successful person. Temple Grandin showed the world that there's no “impossible”, she managed her own life and graduate on every education level with excellent. Despite many obstacle she met in her life made she down but also win to overcame with it. She even got into man world with her specialty in cattle industry, and created the perception and humane ways to dealing with cattle.

This film will help not only the children with autistic, family, society, also the teacher that the impact of environment can shape the future child. People usually think that autistic children are weird and have their own world, but in other side they actually have passion with one thing and will try hard to mastery that thing. Don’t judge children by their disability because they all have their own uniqueness.